Code Blue Episode May 4, 2024
Train Time!
2:59pm - 4:59pm
This show features a compilation released by Rounder Records in 1998 called Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs. Trains are extraordinary creations that helped shape the modern world, but they seem like pretty arbitrary subjects when it comes to music. And yet, there are so many great songs about trains - midnight trains to somewhere, love trains, crazy trains, long trains, fast trains ... With train songs come stories of journeys, freedom, and destinations real and imagined. There is an art to the train song, one that feels lost today.
Track Listing:
Code Blue
JW Jones Band · My Kind of Evil
Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Take The 'A' Train
Delta Rhythm Boys · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
All Aboard
Muddy Waters · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound
Jesse Fuller · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
There's a Train
The Holmes Brothers · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Rock Island Line
Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Mainliner
Little Esther & The Robins · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Mystery Train
Little Junior Parker & his Blue Flames · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Bill Doggett
Night Train · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Nora Lee King
Cannon Ball · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Joe Turner with Pete Johnson's Orchestra
B & D Blues · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Trouble in Mind
Sister Rosetta Tharpe · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train
Brenda Boykin · Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs
Light On
Ndidi O · Simple Songs For Complicated Times
So Cold
Ndidi O · Simple Songs For Complicated Times
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
Sue Foley · One Guitar Woman
Feeling Good
Jack De Keyser · Solo
You Used To Mean So Much To Me
David Gogo · You Used To Mean So Much To Me
Night Train
James Brown · [single]
2:19
John Hammond · Wicked Grin
Midnight Special
Little Richard · King of Rock and Roll
I Like Trains
Fred Eaglesmith · Drive-In Movie
This Train
Sister Rosetta Tharpe · [single]
Waiting For a Train
Boz Scaggs (w/ Duane) · Boz Scaggs
Train Kept A Rollin'
Tiny Bradshaw · [single]
Two Trains Running
Paul Butterfield Blues Band · Paul Butterfield Blues Band
City of New Orleans
Steve Goodman · Mystery Train
Choo Choo Boogaloo
Buckwheat Zydeco · Choo Choo Boogaloo
Get On Board
Buckwheat Zydeco · Choo Choo Boogaloo