27 vintage Blues songs about trains and train journeys. There has always been a profound love affair between trains and roots music As blues developed as a serious musical genre, many of its pioneers travelled from city to city, gig to gig, by hopping aboard moving freight trains. Their rambling adventures gradually became absorbed into their songs, along with metaphors and descriptive phrases like riding the rails, side-tracked, derailed, living on the right tracks, blowing your stack etc. This collection is packed with legendary Blues/R&B artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Tiny Bradshaw, Big Bill Broonzy and Lightnin’ Hopkins alongside lesser-known, mere mortals like Gabriel Brown, Silver Crooks, Willie Love, Soldier Boy Houston, Cousin Leroy and many more. The songs themselves include classics such as Mystery Train, The Train Kept A-Rollin', Mean Old Train, South Bound Train and Train Fare Home.
