Best Train Songs

The first draft of my favourite train s songs.

Best train songs. Folk rock blues big band gospel show tunes skiffle bluegrass newgrass. The best train songs tell tales of power freedom and fortune as they were once understood by americans from the california coast to the georgia pines. Another song that specifically references trains is casey jones by the grateful dead although the train conductor in this song doesn t sound like the most responsible man on the tracks. I think it s the best example of train s ability to paint a surreal and at the same time so real story.

I don t own any of this content just used it for enterteinment purposes. Scoff at it hate it love it add to it you ll probably be right. The new lp features lead single play that song which has become train s 14th top 10 on the adult pop songs airplay chart. The best uses of train songs in movies or tv tom 2 years ago if you can remember when train started getting big you might have been in middle or high school and you are officially getting old.

At one time the downtown train depot. His lyrics to folsom prison blues contain the words train and track. Peace train by yusuf cat stevens 1971 toward the end of the vietnam war songs about peace were common in popular music and stevens folk pop hit made the billboard hot 100 top 10 in 1971. A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads 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 all major musical genres including folk blues country rock jazz world classical and avant garde while the prominence of railroads in the united states has faded in recent decades the.

My list was selected to reflect the incredible variety of musical genres in which train songs have been written. As a soloist monahan added his own adult pop songs top 10 the no. B elow my list of the best train songs ever written.