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 [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Continuing the series of railroad related songs, this week I’m featuring a couple from Crooked Still. They are a progressive bluegrass band that my wife likes. Currently, they are on hiatus, but their music is still readily available. Here are the songs as chosen by The Low [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] A few weeks ago, I wrote a post listing my favorite Johnny Cash train songs. Reader M.R. alerted me to a couple of Johnny Cash albums which may be of special interest to the railfan classic country music fan. First, there’s the All Aboard the Blue Train [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Thanks for making 2011 a record year for The Low-Tech Times. Looking back, my favorite acoustic music release for the year was the collaboration of Chris Thile and Michael Daves. And being an easterner, my top railfan event was Norfolk Southern’s return to steam at TVRM Railfest. [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] I’m continuing the “good music and trains go together” theme again, this week featuring Minnesota’s Mother Banjo with her gospel train song. Revival Train Video Revival Train Song Follow the links to preview/order Revival Train by Mother Banjo off her The Sad and Found album. Investigate Further: [...]