| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Credits |
Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place. |
| Event |
Recorded 1942-1981. |
| Note |
Selections originally released 1952-1997; track 11 previously unissued. |
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Compact disc. |
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Program notes, including bibliography and discography (33 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| Contents |
An excerpt from "Rail dynamics" (recorded by Emory Cook) (:24) -- Train 45 (the New Lost City Ramblers) (2:18) -- Kassie Jones (Furry Lewis) (2:56) -- Jay Gould's daughter (Pete Seeger) (2:38) -- Railroad Bill (Walt Robertson) (2:08) -- Linin' track (Lead Belly) (1:15) -- Freight train (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:43) -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill (Cisco Houston) (2:30) -- Zach, the Mormon engineer (L.M. Hilton) (2:02) -- Lost train blues (the Virginia Mountain Boys) (2:57) -- The F.F.V. (Annie Watson) (3:52) -- He's coming to us dead (the New Lost City Ramblers) (3:15) -- The train that carried my girl from town (Doc Watson) (2:18) -- Rock Island Line (Lead Belly) (2:03) -- Lonesome train (Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston) (3:31) -- John Henry (Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston) (2:42) -- The wreck of the Number Nine (Rosalie Sorrels) (1:36) -- Freight train blues (Brownie McGhee) (3:36) -- The New Market wreck (Mike Seeger) (3:39) -- Jerry, go oil that car (Haywire Mac) (2:38) -- Way out in Idaho (Rosalie Sorrels) (3:34) -- Old John Henry died on the mountain (Henry Grady Terrell) (1:55) -- Casey Jones (John D. Mounce) (:20) -- Wreck of the Old 97 (Pop Stoneman) (2:51) -- Midnight special (Lead Belly) (2:03) -- Wabash Cannonball (Doc Watson) (3:17) -- Lost train blues (Vernon Sutphin) (1:13) -- New River train (Iron Mountain String Band) (4:26) -- Excerpt from "Three little engines and 33 cars" (recorded by Vinton Wight) (:25). |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Railroads -- United States -- Songs and music.
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Ballads, English -- United States.
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Work songs -- United States.
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Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Folk music -- United States.
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Blues (Music)
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| Added Author |
Place, Jeffrey.
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Lewis, Furry, 1893-1981. Performer.
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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014. Performer.
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Robertson, Walt, 1928-1994.
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Leadbelly, 1885-1949. Performer.
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Cotten, Elizabeth. Performer.
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Houston, Cisco. Performer.
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Hilton, L. M.
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Watson, Annie.
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Watson, Doc. Performer.
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Terry, Sonny. Performer.
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967. Performer.
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Sorrels, Rosalie. Performer.
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McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996. Performer.
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Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009. Performer.
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McClintock, Harry K. (Harry Kirby), 1882-1957. Performer.
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Terrell, Henry Grady, 1918-1988. Performer.
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Mounce, John D.
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Stoneman, Ernest V.
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Sutphin, Vernon L., 1921-1995.
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New Lost City Ramblers. Performer.
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Virginia Mountain Boys.
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Iron Mountain String Band.
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| Note |
Title on container: Classic railroad songs from Smithsonian Folkways |
| Standard No. |
093074019221 |
| Music No. |
SFW CD 40192 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |
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