Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Continuing the series of train songs here on The Low Tech Times, here’s a good acoustic number by Critter Fuqua entitled New Virginia Creeper. The song was recorded by the Old Crow Medicine Show, on their Big Iron World album. The song features some not-too-subtle double entendre [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Continuing the series of train songs here on The Low Tech Times, here’s a good bluegrass number entitled Wave Goodbye by the Alan Munde Gazette from their Made to Last album. To preview the song, simply click the iTunes links. My favorite hard-driving version of Wave Goodbye [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Today I’m featuring one of my favorite train songs by one of my favorite artists. The train song is Streamline Cannonball by Doc Watson. Doc Watson is not only an awesome flat-picker, but he also has a great voice. I’m fortunate to have seen him perform live [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] This week’s featured song is Train 45. My favorite version of this hard-driving banjo tune is off one of my favorite albums, Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom album. Other fine versions of Train 45 are available from Ralph Stanley and also from the Live In Japan – The [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] This week’s featured song is Fireball Mail by The Lawmen, who are Norfolk Southern Railway’s bluegrass/country band. Featuring locomotive sounds during the intro, this is a good, hard-driving from their Just Trains album. If you’re interested in classic country, you might also like Roy Acuff’s recording of [...]