SAD 2039
Sound Library
Railroad songs and ballads from the Archive of Folk Song
- Library of Congress, 1968.
- 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm
Sound disc, analog.
Side 1: 1. Calling Trains / Unidentified old train caller of New Orleans, LA, recorded at State Penitentiary, Parchman, MS, 1936, rec. John A. Lomax -- 2. The Boss of the Section Gang / Mrs Minta Morgan, Bells, TX, 1937, rec. John A. Lomax -- 3. Jerry Will You Ile That Car / Warde H. Ford, Central Valley, CA, 1939, rec. Sidney Robertson Cowell -- 4. Lining Track / Henry Hankins, Tuscumbia, Alabama, 1939, rec. Herbert Halpert -- 5. Roll On Buddy / Aunt Molly Jackson, New York, New York, 1939, rec. Alan Lomax -- 6. Way Out in Idaho / Blaine Stubblefield, Washington, D.C., 1938, rec. Alan Lomax -- 7. Oh I'm A Jolly Irishman Winding On the Train / Noble B. Brown, Woodman, Wisconsin, 1946, rec. Aubrey Snyder & Helene Statman Thomas -- 8. The Engineer / Lester E. Coffee, Harvard, Illinois, 1946, rec. Aubrey Snyder & Phyllis Pinkerton -- 9. George Allen / sung with banjo by Austin Harmon, Maryville, Tennessee, 1939, rec. Herbert Halpert -- 10. The Wreck of the Royal Palm / sung with guitar by Clarence H. Wyatt, Berea, Kentucky, 1954, rec. Wyatt Insko -- 11. Train Blues / Russell Wide on fiddle and Mr White on guitar at Cherry Lake Farms, Madison, Florida, 1936) -- Side 2: 1. The New River Train / The Ridge Rangers, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1938, rec. Alan & Elizabeth Lomax -- 2. The Train is Off the Track / Mrs Esco Kilgore, Hamiltontown, near Wise, Virginia, 1939, rec. Herbert Halpert -- 3. Gonna Lay My Head Down On Some Railroad Line / Will Wright, Clinton, Arkansas, 1936, rec. Sidney Robertson Cowell -- 4. I Rode Southern, I Rode L & N / sung with guitar by Merie Lovell, Shafter, CA, 1940, rec. Charles L. Todd & Robert Sonkin -- 5. The Lightning Express / Jim Holbert, Visalia, CA, 1940, rec. Charles L. Todd & Robert Sonkin -- 6. Railroad Rag / sung with guitar and mandolin by Joe Harris and Kid West, Shreveport, LA, 1940, rec. John A. & Ruby T. Lomax -- 7. The Railroader / sung with guitar by Mary Kennedy McCord, Springfield, MO, 1941, rec. Vance Randolph -- 8. The T.&p. Line / Mrs Mary Sullivan, Shafter, CA, 1941, rec. Charles L. Tod & Robert Sonkin -- 9. The Dying Hobo / sung with guitar by George Lay, Heber Springs, Arkansas, 1959, rec. Mary C. Parler -- 10. The Big Rock Candy Mountains / sung with guitar by Harry McClintock, San Pedro, CA, 1951, rec. Sam Eskin -- 11. I'm Goin' Home On the Mornin' Train /E.M. Martin and Pearline Johns, Clarksdale, MS, 1942, rec. Alan Lomax.