VA - Train Tracks Vol. 01 (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

TRAIN TRACKS

VA - Train Tracks Vol. 01 (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads. Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde. While the prominence of railroads has faded in recent decades, the train endures as a common image in popular song. (Wikipedia)

There are literally thousands of songs about trains both, physically and metaphorically. As a metaphor for life, trains can move forward at full speed, veer off the tracks or become full-on wrecks, so it’s no wonder there are so many songs that invoke life on the rails.

The following selections are part of a multi-volume series that will include Train tracks in the Rock, Blues, Folk, Pop, Soul, Psychedelic Rock, Indie, Progressive Rock and Country genres.

Volume 1 is dedicated to Rock songs that reference trains physically and metaphorically. I hope you will enjoy the first 60 tracks. 

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Track lists

CD1

01 Q65 Ridin' on a Slow Train 4:10

02 Free     Catch a Train 3:32

03 Link Wray Mystery Train 4:41

04 Chris Smither It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry 4:26

05 Bruce Springsteen Downbound Train 3:37

06 Mark Seymour & the Undertow Football Train 3:22

07 Medicine Boy Time is a Train 4:11

08 Mark Lanegan Band Deep Black Vanishing Train 3:09

09 Chris Rea Last Train 6:33

10 Hem Betting on Trains 2:44

11 Bobby Charles Last Train to Memphis 3:02

12 Waler Salas-Humara Diner By the Train 6:29

13 Kinks Last of the Steam Powered Trains 4:09

14 Steve Miller Freight Train Blues 2:48

15 John Fogerty Big Train (From Memphis) 2:58

16 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Blue Train 6:45

17 Crazy Horse Gone Dead Train 4:09

18 Savoy Brown Slow Train 2:53

19 Steamhammer Hold That Train 5:34

20 Chuck Berry All Aboard 2:09

CD2

21 Creedence Clearwater Revival Graveyard Train 8:37

22 Steve Darbishire Trains Trains 3:37

23 Rj Fox Parallel Trains 5:48

24 JJ Cale Lonesome Train 3:09

25 Doobie Brothers Long Train Runnin' 3:29

26 Steve Winwood Night Train 7:51

27 Electric Light Orchestra Last Train to London 4:34

28 Randy Newman Dixie Flyer 4:09

29 Sue Foley Mean Old Lonesome Train 3:22

30 Cat Stevens Peace Train 4:11

31 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Runaway Trains 5:12

32 Jumble Lane A Train Ago Last Saturday 3:46

33 Al Stewart Trains 8:16

34 Eric Burdon Slow Moving Train 5:25

35 Link Protrudi & the Jaymen Night Train 3:02

36 Soul Asylum Runaway Train 4:19

37 Rolling Stones Silver Train 4:28

38 Black Crowes A Train Still Makes a Lonely Sound 4:23

39 Robin Trower & Jack Bruce Last Train to the Stars [Feat. Jack Bruce] 3:22

40 Joe Bonamassa Distant Lonesome Train 5:53

CD3

41 Joe Bonamassa Slow Train 6:49

42 Louise Hoffsten Slow Train 3:48

43 Shooter Jennings Slow Train 3:41

44 Van Morrison Evening Train 2:50

45 Go Grall Blues Band So Down Train 5:39

46 Neil Young and the International Harvesters Southern Pacific 7:52

47 Dolly Rocker Movement Steam Train Blues 5:04

48 Phish Back on the Train 3:02

49 John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Ain't No Brakeman 4:05

50 Adaen Sounds of Running Trains 5:23

51 Big Big Train Last Train 6:27

52 Jeff Beck Group New Ways Train Train 5:54

53 Mother Earth Stop the Train 3:23

54 John Mayer Stop This Train 4:45

55 Gravy Train Climb Aboard the Gravy Train 3:08

56 East Side Kids Subway Train 2:01

57 Tony Joe White Taking the Midnite Train 4:06

58 Ocean Colour Scene The Day We Caught the Train 3:06

59 Consortium The Day the Train Never Came 2:47

60 Jimi Hendrix Hear My Train A-Comin' 5:38

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