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“Today we’re gonna hit the road, we’re gonna ride the blinds, and dodge the yard bulls. We’re gonna take a ride on the Redding, transfer over to the B & O, and if we have time, pick up our tickets for the Orient Express. So all you box car tourists, get yourselves out of the roundhouse and hop aboard, as we spend the next hour contemplating the iron horse. It’s not a crazy idea, but we got a ‘loco motive’ and it’s all about trains. In the background, Meade Anderson Lewis; perhaps you know him better as Mead Lux Lewis. He was one of the kings of the honky tonk piano and, like a lot of the great piano players, he used his rockin’ left hand to imitate the rhythm of the trains on the tracks.”

Artists:

Johnny Burnett Trio, Little Junior Parker, Jimmie Rodgers, Scottie, The Clash, Jimmy Forrest, The Delmore Brothers, Freddie King, Frankie Lane, Lord Buckley, Tiny Bradshaw, The Monkees, Leadbelly, Laura Cantrell, The Jubalairs, Grateful Dead