| Product Summary | | Label: Rounder Select | | UPC: 00018964114428 | | Release Date: 10/13/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60182995 | | Item#: MDPSXH | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie - Louis Jordan ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Take The "A" Train - Delta Rhythm Boys ~ Various Artists | | | 3. All Aboard - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound - Jesse Fuller ~ Various Artists | | | 5. There's A Train - The Holmes Brothers ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Rock Island Line - Linda Tillery/The Cultural Heritage Choir ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Mainliner - Esther Phillips/The Robins ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Railroadin' Some - Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Mystery Train - Little Junior Parker & His Blue Flames ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Night Train - Bill Doggett ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Cannon Ball - Nora Lee King ~ Various Artists | | | 12. B & O Blues - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson's Orchestra ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Trouble In Mind - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra/Sister Rosetta Tharpe ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train - Brenda Boykin/The Johnny Nocturne Band ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes liner notes by Norm Cohen. | | Personnel: Wendell Holmes (vocals, guitar); Jesse Fuller (vocals, 12-string guitar, harmonica); Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Sherman Holmes (vocals, piano); Popsy Dixon (vocals, drums); Elouise Burrell (vocals, percussion); Kelsey Pharr, Melanie DeMore, Muddy Waters, Nora Lee King, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Joe Turner, Brenda Boykin, Carl Jones (vocals); Linda Tillery (bass voice, percussion); Floyd Murphy, Carl Hogan , Henry Thomas , Jimmy Rogers , Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Anthony Paule, Trevor Bacon, Billy Butler (guitar); James Cotton , Little Walter (harmonica); Buster Bailey (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); T. Nash, George Weidler (saxophone); Pete Brown, Billy Bowen, Frank Sleet, George James, Eli Wolinsky (alto saxophone); Clifford Scott, Pete Peterson, Joshua Jackson, Ray Felder, John Firmin, Raymond Hill, Stafford Simon (tenor saxophone); Ernest Purce, Danny Bittker, Fred Ford, Floyd Johnson, Milburn Newman (baritone saxophone); Dizzy Gillespie, James Ross , Donald Johnson, Archie Johnson, Aaron Izenhall, Nelson Bryant, Art Farmer, William Scott , Bill Ortiz (trumpet); George Stevenson , Don Cole, R. Klein, George Washington , Marty Wehner (trombone); Bill Doggett (piano, organ); Devonia Williams, Henry Salvia, Pete Johnson , Sammy Price, Wild Bill Davis, William Johnson (piano); David "Panama" Francis, Francis Clay, Eddie Byrd, Leard Bell, J. Mills, John Bowers, Robert Brady, Alvin Johnson, Terry Baker (drums); Rashida Oji, Emma Jean Fiege, Rhonda Benin (percussion, background vocals); John Santos, Johnny Otis (percussion). | | Liner Note Author: Norm Cohen. | | Photographer: Doug Fulton. | | Arrangers: Linda Tillery; Wild Bill Davis. | | Trains were a major industrial force for over a hundred years in America. Starting around 1830, they became key components in how the country moved goods, people, and information across previously unimaginable distances. They also provided themes and metaphors for popular songs and music, many of which also drew underlying structure and dynamics from the chug-chug and clickety-clack rhythms of a train in passing, while horn players and harmonica wizards worked to simulate the blast of the steam whistle on their instruments. As a metaphor for arrivals and departures, as proof for deliverance to a better place, the train was a strong signature in the Afro-American musical community. This interesting collection from Rounder Records underscores the role of the train in that regard, full of train-like rhythms and the use of the train image to convey all manner of social connections, from deliverance to release. Muddy Waters' "All Aboard," for instance, an early variation of a folk song that would eventually emerge as "Mystery Train," mimics the chugging sound of a train pulling into a station, complete with harmonica fills that stand in for a train's whistle. Henry Thomas' "Railroadin' Some," recorded in 1929 and the oldest piece compiled here, is nothing less than a litany of train stops punctuated by Thomas' cane fife blasts. Song after song here draws on the sound and thematic possibilities of the train, and as the 21st century chugs forward, the train becomes a perhaps even more potent image, conjuring the past and where and what we've been even as it pulls out of the station toward some uncertain future. ~ Steve Leggett |
Producer: Dave Luke; Delta Rhythm Boys; Tom Spinosa; Frank Comstock; Sam Phillips; John Firmin; Leonard Chess; Milt Gabler; Andy Breslau; Phil Chess; Scott Billington; Tillery; Michael Hyatt (Compilation) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/13/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 1144 | | Label : Rounder | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 43m : 4s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00018964114428 |
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