Name: Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1
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Album: Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff
2)	Orange Blossom Special - The Johnson Mountain Boys
3)	Daddy, What's a Train? - Utah Phillips
4)	Jimmie the Kid - Jimmie Rodgers
5)	Ramblin' Man - Kieran Kane
6)	Steel Rails - Alison Krauss
7)	Trainwreck of Emotion - Del McCoury
8)	Slow Moving Freight Train - Hugh Moffatt
9)	Lord of the Trains - Tom Russell
10)	Last Train - Peter Rowan
11)	Nine Pound Hammer - David Grisman/Doc Watson/Alan O'Bryant
12)	When the Golden Train Comes Down - The Sons of the Pioneers
13)	Texas, 1947 - Guy Clark
14)	Pan American Boogie - Kate MacKenzie

Album: Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff
2)	Orange Blossom Special - The Johnson Mountain Boys
3)	Daddy, What's a Train? - Utah Phillips
4)	Jimmie the Kid - Jimmie Rodgers
5)	Ramblin' Man - Kieran Kane
6)	Steel Rails - Alison Krauss
7)	Trainwreck of Emotion - Del McCoury
8)	Slow Moving Freight Train - Hugh Moffatt
9)	Lord of the Trains - Tom Russell
10)	Last Train - Peter Rowan
11)	Nine Pound Hammer - David Grisman/Doc Watson/Alan O'Bryant
12)	When the Golden Train Comes Down - The Sons of the Pioneers
13)	Texas, 1947 - Guy Clark
14)	Pan American Boogie - Kate MacKenzie

Performer Notes

Personnel: Alan O'Bryant (vocals, tenor, banjo); Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Kieran Kane, Peter Rowan, Tom Russell, Utah Phillips (vocals, guitar); Jerry Douglas (vocals, dobro, fiddle); Sam Bush (vocals, mandolin); Warren Blair, Jeff White, Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle); Lloyd Perryman, Guy Clark, Hugh Moffatt, Jimmie Rodgers , Kate MacKenzie, Roy Acuff, Jerry McCoury, Bob Nolan (vocals); Ronnie McCoury (tenor, mandolin); Andrew Hardin (guitar, background vocals); M.T. Salazar, Dudley Connell, Jim Colvard (guitar); Mike Henderson, Russ Barenberg (acoustic guitar); Dan Dugmore (electric guitar); Charles Kama, Sam Koki (steel guitar); Pete "Oswald" Kirby (dobro); Rob McCoury, Tom Adams (banjo); Stuart Duncan (mandolin, fiddle); David Grisman, David McLaughlin (mandolin); Eddie Stubbs, Jon Glik, Nick Forster, Tammy Rogers (fiddle); Fats Kaplin, Jimmy Riddle, Terry McMillan, Mickey Raphael (harmonica); David Briggs (keyboards); Billy Troiani (bass guitar); Mike Warner (drums, percussion, background vocals); Harry Stinson, Jerry Kroon (drums); Don Heffington (bodhran, tambourine).
Liner Note Author: Norm Cohen.
Recording information: Athletic Sound, Halden, Norway (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Bias Recorders, Springfield, VA (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Champagne Studios, Nashville, TN (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Earth Audio Techniques Inc., North Ferrisburg, VT (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Hollywood, CA (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Los Angeles, CA (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Music Row Audio, Nashville, TN (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Nashville, TN (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Old Schoolhouse, Lucketts, VA (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Texas Hotel, San Antonio, TX (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); The Home Place, Nashville, TN (01/21/1931-10/??/1994); Treasure Isle, Nashville, TN (01/21/1931-10/??/1994).
Photographers: Russ Harrington; Andy Ferenwald.
Unknown Contributor Role: Shonna Valeska.
As long as railroads have existed, there have been songs sung about them, whether to praise their wonders, tell stories, or condemn them as tools of evil. Steel Rails and its companion volume, Mystery Train, set out to sample this particular vein of American song, offering up versions of "Wabash Cannonball" and "The Orange Blossom Special" (an amusing live version from the Johnson Mountain Boys) alongside twelve other songs that might not be quite as familiar as those two. A mixture of well-known artists and fairly new names is also a plus for the package -- Kieran Kane, slipped in between Jimmie Rodgers and Alison Krauss, holds his own with a moody take on Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man." Meanwhile, it's no accident that much of the music here is country, western or bluegrass -- by the time rock & roll came along, fast cars were the order of the day, not cannonballing trains. ~ Steven McDonald