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Big Bill Broonzy's "The Southern Blues" contains the line "where the Southern crosses the Dog", referring to Moorhead, Mississippi, where the line crossed the Southern Railway. [1] Scrapper Blackwell's song "Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog" also references the Monon Railroad in Indiana. The two lines do not actually meet.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
The "Yellow Dog" was the local name for the Yazoo Delta Railroad; the "Southern" is the much larger Southern Railway. "Yellow Dog Blues" has been recorded a number of times, mostly as an instrumental, and has become a traditional jazz standard.
Blues music can't be explained in just a few words. It's a way of life and it comes from the heart. These 25 songs show the breadth and depth of the genre.
Alabama Great Southern Railroad: New Orleans and Northwestern Railway: MP: 1884 1902 Natchez and Southern Railway: New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: IC: 1874 1877 Central Mississippi Railroad, New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad: North East and South West Alabama Railroad: SOU: 1854 1868 Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
The Corinth and Counce Railroad was a Class III railroad operating freight service between Mississippi and Tennessee. The line was built in 1959, expanded in 1974 and sold in 1991 to a new owner who changed the railroad's name. Today, some of the Corinth and Counce's trackage is operated by the Kansas City Southern Railway.
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Like numerous other folk songs, "In the Pines" was passed on from one generation and locale to the next by word of mouth. In 1925, a version of the song was recorded onto phonograph cylinder by a folk collector. This was the first documentation of "The Longest Train" variant of the song, which includes a verse about "The longest train I ever ...