Doc Watson \ Wreck Of The Number Nine \ Best Of The Sugar Hill Years \ Sugar Hill Jim Lauderdale\ Where They Turn Around\ Bluegrass\ Yep Roc The Wreck of the Old 97 The Wabash Cannon Ball I've Been Working on the Railroad Railroad Bill Elizabeth Cotten\ Freight Train House of Doc\ Lonesome Railroad\ Prairiegrass\ Self Chris Stuart & Backcountry\ Rider On This Train\ Mojave River\ Backcountry From Doug Tucker Johnny Cash/Let the Train Whistle Blow/American Recordings Guy Clark/Texas-1947/Keepers Emmylou Harris/Smoke Along the Track/At the Ryman Dolly Parton/Train Train/The Grass is Blue Kinky Friedman/Silver Eagle Express/Pearls in the Snow From Patrick and Susan Kinney The Train -- The Roches Another Train -- Pete Morton (rec. by Sally Barker) People Get Ready -- traditional (there's a recent recording by Eva Cassidy) Downtown Train -- Tom Waits (covered by lots of folks including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Everything but the Girl, and Rod Stewart) City of New Orleans -- Steve Goodman Peace Train -- Cat Stevens If Love Was A Train -- Michelle Shocked Night Train -- Rickie Lee Jones Ghost Train -- Rickie Lee Jones Southbound Train -- Julie Gold (rec. by Nanci Griffith) Your Train -- Vance Gilbert Harriet Tubman -- Holly Near (also a nice duet of this with Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert)
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