Category: A’s Track of the Day

The first part of which is The FFV – Bill Monroe’s story of a train crash. ‘So the very last words poor Georgie cried were, “Nearer my God to thee”.’

‘Number two diesel fuel flowed through his veins, Mama loved Daddy but Daddy loved trains.’ From Whitley’s 1995 album Wherever You Are Tonight.

‘Driving that train, high on cocaine’. The Dead’s idiosyncratic version of the Casey Jones story, from the 1970 LP Workingman’s Dead. Here’s a live version from 1978.

Definitely not the same as the previous Graham Nash song. This is a live performance of the track from the album Down The Road I Go, played at Farm Aid … Continue readingTravis Tritt: Southbound Train

This is a live version of the song from the album Let Me Up I’ve Had Enough. (That’s enough runaway trains – Ed).

Yet another fugitive locomotive, this time from Dame Elton’s 1992 album The One.

Again, no relation to the previous songs. This is a live version of the hit track from the 1992 album Grave Dancers Union.

No relation whatsoever to yesterday’s song of the same name from the Drive-By Truckers. This one was written by John Stewart and featured on Rosanne’s 1988 album King’s Record Shop. … Continue readingRosanne Cash: Runaway Train

Adam’s House Cat was formed in the late 1980s in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They went on to find fame as the Drive-By Truckers. Here’s the original Runaway Train. And here’s … Continue readingAdam’s House Cat: Runaway Train

‘And the train conductor says: Take a break, driver 8.’ From the 1984 album Reckoning.