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  2. List of train songs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Great American Songbook - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.

  4. Shine a Light (Billy Bragg and Joe Henry album) - Wikipedia

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    Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad is a 2016 album of field recordings made by British singer Billy Bragg and American musician Joe Henry as they performed in waiting rooms and trackside at railway stations on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles in March 2016.

  5. Category:Songs about trains - Wikipedia

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    Took the Last Train; Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) Toy Train (song) Train (3 Doors Down song) Train (Goldfrapp song) The Train Is Coming; Train Kept A-Rollin' Train on a Track; Train-Train; Train, Train (The Count Bishops song) Trains and Boats and Planes; Trains to Brazil; Trans-Europe Express (song) Tre gringos; Trem das Onze; I treni di ...

  6. The Ballad of Casey Jones - Wikipedia

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    "The Ballad of Casey Jones", also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" or simply "Casey Jones", is a traditional American folk song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered ...

  7. Wabash Cannonball - Wikipedia

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    "The Great Rock Island Route", popularized as "Wabash Cannonball" and also known by various other titles, is a 19th-century American folk song that describes the scenic beauty and predicaments of a fictional train, the Wabash Cannonball Express, as it travels on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

  8. It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook - Wikipedia

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    It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook is the first album of American pop standards recorded by British musician Rod Stewart, and his 20th album overall. It was released on 22 October 2002, and became the first in a five-volume series. The album was Stewart's first release for Sony Music imprint J Records. It included his second ...

  9. Todd Snider - Wikipedia

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    East Nashville Skyline included two iconic songs that added to the songwriting canon: "Play a Train Song" pushed the boundaries of "train" songs with the story of a man who was known for always requesting that kind of song, and "The Ballad of the Kingsmen" took the talking blues to a more contemporary place musically while connecting the ...