Artist	Song
Elvis Presley	Mystery Train
from The Essential Elvis Presley (Remastered) (2006)
Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues
from The Sun Years (2006)
Roger Miller	King of the Road
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Roger Miller (1999)
Grateful Dead	Casey Jones
from Workingman's Dead (2004)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	The Midnight Special
from Chronicle, Vol. 2: Twenty Great CCR Classics (Remastered) (2006)
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio	The Train Kept a Rollin'
from Tear It Up the Complete Legedary Coral Recordings (2004)
Eagles	Train Leaves Here This Morning (Remastered)
from Selected Works 1972-1999 (2004)
The Doobie Brothers	Long Train Runnin'
from Long Train Runnin' 1970-2000 (2005)
Gladys Knight & The Pips	Midnight Train to Georgia
from Platinum & Gold Collection (2003)
The Shangri-Las	The Train from Kansas City
from The Complete Collection (2009)
Bob Dylan	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
from Highway 61 Revisited (1990)
Pete Seeger	I've Been Working On the Railroad
from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 (2002)
Ozzy Osbourne	Crazy Train
from The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (2003)
The Monkees	Last Train to Clarksville
from The Monkees (2004)
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Marrakesh Express
from Crosby, Stills & Nash: Greatest Hits (2005)
Hank Williams	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
from Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1988)
Jimmie Rodgers	Waiting for a Train
from Essential Jimmie Rodgers (1997)
Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train
from The Very Best of Duke Ellington (1999)
Muddy Waters	All Aboard
from Muddy Waters: His Best (1956-1964) (1997)
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra	Chatanooga Choo Choo
from Glenn Miller - 34 Greatest Hits (2006)
Bruce Springsteen	Downbound Train
from Born In the U.S.A. (1984)
Lead Belly	Rock Island Line
from Folkways: The Original Vision (2003)
The O'Jays	Love Train
from The Essential O'Jays (2004)
The Kingston Trio	M.T.A.
from The Capitol Collector's Series: The Kingston Trio (1990)
Elizabeth Cotten	Freight Train
from Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1989)
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys	New River Train
from All The Classic Releases 1937 - 1949 (2005)
Gordon Lightfoot	Canadian Railroad Trilogy
from Gordon Lightfoot: The United Artists Collection (1993)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	This Train
from The Gospel of the Blues (2003)
Guy Clark	Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
from The Essential Guy Clark (1997)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Hear My Train a Comin'
from The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2010)
Chuck Berry	Down Bound Train
from After School Session (2004)
Johnny Cash	Wreck of the Old '97
from With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
The Everly Brothers	I'm On My Way Home Again
from Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers 1960-1969 (2007)
Flatt & Scruggs	Big Black Train
from 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered - The Essential Flatt & Scruggs (1997)
Billy Joe Shaver	Georgia On a Fast Train
from Hot Tracks: Train Super Hits (1998)
Roy Acuff	Wabash Cannon Ball
from Roy Acuff's Greatest Hits (1997)
Alison Krauss	Steel Rails
from I've Got That Old Feeling (2009)
Mississippi John Hurt	Spike Driver Blues
from Avalon Blues - The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (1996)
Woody Guthrie	Hobo's Lullaby
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Vince Gill	Jenny Dreamed of Trains
from High Lonesome Sound (1996)
The Stanley Brothers	Train 45
from The Stanley Brothers: All-Time Greatest Hits (2002)
The Delmore Brothers	Freight Train Boogie
from Top Hits: Blues, Stay Away from Me - EP (2008)
Otis Rush	So Many Roads, so Many Trains
from Chess Blues (1993)
Josh Turner	Long Black Train
from Long Black Train (2003)
Little Feat	Two Trains
from Hoy-Hoy! (2008)
The Velvet Underground	Train Round the Bend
from Loaded (2005)
Johnny Mercer	On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
from Capitol Collectors Series: Johnny Mercer (1989)
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Choo Choo Ch' Boogie (1946 Single Version)
from The Best of Louis Jordan (1989)
Hank Snow	Hobo Bill's Last Ride
from Diamond Master Series: Hank Snow (2007)
Kraftwerk	Trans Europe Express
from Minimum-Maximum (2005)
The Magnetic Fields	Born on a Train
from The Charm of the Highway Strip (1994)
Rosanne Cash	My Baby Thinks He's A Train
from The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash (2005)
Steve Earle	Mystery Train, Pt. 2
from Train a Comin' (2008)
Dave Van Ronk	Two Trains Running
from The Mayor of MacDougal Street: Rarities 1957-1969 (2005)
Haywire Mac	Big Rock Candy Mountain
from Classic Folk Music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2004)
New Riders of the Purple Sage	Glendale Train
from The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage (2006)
Furry Lewis	Kassie Jones Part 1
from In His Prime 1927-1928 (2005)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Roll On Buddy
from The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott (2006)
Burl Ives	The Little Engine That Could
from A Twinkle In Your Eye (2002)
Uncle Dave Macon	When the Train Comes Along
from Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary, Vol. 2 (2000)
Tony Rice Unit	Old Train
from Manzanita (2010)
Charlie Daniels	Orange Blossom Special
from Fiddle Fire (2005)
Crazy Horse	Gone Dead Train
from Scratchy: The Reprise Recordings (2005)
Little Mo' Mccoury	Monkey and the Engineer
from Little Mo' Mccoury (2007)
Steve Gillette	2:10 Train
from Steve Gillette (2006)
Marty Stuart	Last Train Done Gone Down
from Let There Be Country (2000)
Utah Phillips	Daddy, What's a Train?
from Good Though! (1997)
Norman Blake	Slow Train Through Georgia
from Slow Train Through Georgia (1990)
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys	Bringing in the Georgia Mail
from In the Tradition (1987)
John Fahey	The Last Steam Engine Train
from The Best of John Fahey 1959-1977 (2006)
Henry Thomas	Railroadin' Some
from Texas Worried Blues (2005)
Mississippi Fred McDowell, Rose Hemphill & Sindey Carter	When the Train Comes Along
from The Alan Lomax Collection: Portraits - The First Recordings (1997)
Robyn Hitchcock	I Often Dream Of Trains
from For The Kids Too (2010)
The Go-Betweens	Here Comes a City
from Oceans Apart (2005)

Comment:

The iron horse. The steel rail. From the Rock Island Line to the Marrakesh Express, trains have been rolling through popular music ever since the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad launched their first steam locomotive, "Tom Thumb," in 1829. Sometimes the sound of escape, sometimes a reminder of freedom lost, the train's high-lonesome whistle whines across blues, folk, and country, and the rumble of its wheels along the tracks have been found as far uptown as Harlem and as far out of town as the wide prairie. Our musical salute to the railroad may not always be bound for glory, but it does span three continents and seven decades . . . not to mention any kind of music you could possibly want to hear. All aboard!

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