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This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional African-American gospel song first recorded in 1922. Although its origins are unknown, the song was relatively popular during the 1920s as a religious tune, and it became a gospel hit in the late 1930s for singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. [1]
Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie, with Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. [3]
A film adaptation of Bound for Glory was released in 1976. [2]The Boomtown Rats, an Irish rock band, took their name from Woody Guthrie's boyhood gang in the book. [5]Bob Dylan was greatly influenced by the work; in Dylan's own autobiography, he wrote of Bound for Glory: "I went through it cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio."
Railroad Revival Tour bands Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show closed the show together at every stop with "This Train Is Bound for Glory." [8] The 2012 tour was slated to include performances by Willie Nelson, Band of Horses, Jamey Johnson, and John Reilly and Friends. [9] The tour was cancelled ...
Bound for Glory, a 1976 film based on the book, starring David Carradine; Bound for Glory, a Canadian drama film; Bound for Glory, a 2005 American sports documentary series "Bound for Glory" (song), a 1990 song by Angry Anderson "Bound for Glory", a tribute song for Woody Guthrie by Phil Ochs from his 1964 album All the News That's Fit to Sing
Bound for Glory, 1976, a biopic of Woody Guthrie, starring David Carradine and Randy Quaid. This was the first major film to use the Steadicam, and Haskell Wexler won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film, and the film also won another Academy Award. Nickelodeon, 1976, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Tatum O'Neal
Willie Dixon based "My Babe" on the traditional gospel song "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)", recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe as "This Train". [2] He reworked the arrangement and lyrics from the sacred (the procession of saints into Heaven) into the secular (a story about a woman that won't stand for her man's cheating): "My baby, she don't stand no cheating, my babe, she don't stand none ...
[8] [9] (The song is often associated with Woody Guthrie, as the inspiration for his 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory, but to music writer Dave Marsh, Springsteen's song was based more off of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's rendition. [8]) In Springsteen's take, all are welcome on the train - not just "the righteous and the holy" of the original, but ...