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NTS Guide to: Blues & The American Railroad
14.10.23 · London

NTS Guide to: Blues & The American Railroad

From freed slaves who built the railway in the 19th Century, to men and women who rode them to escape the Jim Crow south in the early 20th Century, the blues and bluesmen were never far away.

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Tracklist

  • 0:01:35
    De Ford Bailey
    Pan American Blues
  • 0:04:24
    Rev. J. M. Gates And His Congregation
    The Funeral Train A-Coming
  • 0:07:15
    Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie
    Lonesome Train
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  • Blind Teddy Darby
    Built Right On The Ground
  • Blind Joe Taggart, Emma Taggart
    I Wish My Mother Was On That Train
  • Andrew And Jim Baxter
    K.C. Railroad Blues
  • Lucille Bogan
    I Hate That Train Called The M. And O.
  • Robert Johnson
    Love In Vain Blues
  • Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers
    Big Railroad Blues
  • John Lee Hooker
    Hobo Blues
  • The Reverend Robert Wilkins
    Long Train Blues
  • Eddie Mapp And His Harmonica
    Riding The Blinds (1929)
  • Mississippi John Hurt
    Spike Driver Blues
  • Bukka White
    The Atlanta Special
  • Leadbelly
    John Hardy
  • John Lee Hooker
    Mean Old Train
  • Big Bill Broonzy
    South Bound Train
  • Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train
  • Mississippi Fred McDowell
    John Henry