Side A
Artist	Song
Sixteen Horsepower	Sinnerman - {Folklore}
Songs: Ohia	Body Burned Away - {Ghost Tropic}
Woven Hand	Sparrow Falls - {Consider The Birds}
Gonzßlez, JosT	Stay In The Shade - {Veneer}
Marty Robbins	El Paso - {The Legend}
Johnny Cash	Ring Of Fire - {The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 (Disc 2)}
Friends Of Dean Martinez	Siempre Que - {A Place In The Sun}
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Lovely Creature - {Murder Ballads}
Castanets	You Are The Blood - {Cathedral}
Billy Bragg & Wilco	Black Wind Blowing - {Mermaid Avenue (Vol. 2)}
Bonnie "Prince" Billie	Another Day Full of Dread - {I See A Darkness}
Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska - {Nebraska}
Diane Izzo [The Pine Valley Cosmonauts]	Oh Death - {The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. I}
Mississippi John Hurt	Louis Collins - {Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings}
Tom Waits	Murder In The Red Barn - {Bone Machine}
Henry Flynt	Sky Turned Red - {Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1}
Leadbelly	The Gallows Pole - {Electric Muse I Vol 1}
Clarence Ashley	Little Sadie - {Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings}
The Everly Brothers	Down In The Willow Garden - {The Complete Cadence Recordings 1957-1960}
Almeda Riddle	The House Carpenter - {Southern Journey, Vol. 6: Sheep, Sheep Don'tcha Know The Road}
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Drive-By Truckers	Cottonseed - {The Dirty South}
Diane Cluck	Telepathic Desert - {Oh Vanille}
Iron and Wine	An Angry Blade - {The Creek Drank the Cradle}
Califone	Mean Little Seed - {Quicksand/Cradlesnakes}
Neko Case	Things That Scare Me - {Blacklisted}
Ruby Vass	The Banks Of The Ohio - {Southern Journey, Vol. 2: Ballads And Breakdowns}
John Fahey	Dance of Death - {The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites}
Estil C. Ball	Pretty Polly - {Southern Journey, Vol. 1: Voices From The American South}
Bob Dylan	The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - {The Times They Are A-Changin' [UK]}
Woody Guthrie	Ludlow Massacre - {Hard Travelin' - The Asch Recordings}
Kingston Trio	Tom Dooley - {The Very Best Of The Kingston Trio}
Country Johnny Mathis	Caryl Chessman - {God Less America}
Hank Williams	A Picture from Life's Other Side - {Beyond the Sunset}
Eddie Noak	Dolores - {God Less America}
Brett Sparks [The Pine Valley Cosmonauts]	Knoxville Girl - {The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. I}
Robbie Fulks	Barely Human - {Country Love Songs}
Papa M	The Unquiet Grave - {Whatever, Mortal}
Smog	Renee Died 1:45 - {Burning Kingdom}
Bill Frisell	John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - {The Willies}
The Black Heart Procession	Return to Burn - {The Spell}

Comment:

The Hell-Bound Train
A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
Having drunk so much he could drink no more;
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain,
To dream that he rode on a hell-bound train.

The engine with murderous blood was damp,
And was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp;
An imp for fuel was shoveling bones,
While the furnace rang with a thousand groans.

The boiler was filled with lager beer,
And the Devil himself was the engineer;
The passengers were a most motley crew
Church member, atheist, Gentile and Jew.

Rich men in broadcloth, beggars in rags,
Handsome young ladies, withered old hags.
Yellow and black men, red, brown and white,
All chained together -- O God, what a sight!

While the train rushed on at an awful pace,
The sulfurous fumes scorched their hands and face;
Wider and wider the country grew,
As faster and faster the engine flew

Louder and louder the thunder crashed,
And brighter and brighter the lightning flashed;
Hotter and hotter the air became,
Till the clothes were burnt from each quivering frame.

And out of the distance there arose a yell,
"Ha, ha," said the Devil, "we're nearing hell!"
Then, oh, how the passengers shrieked with pain,
And begged the Devil to stop the train.

But he capered about and danced with glee,
And laughed and joked at their misery.
"My faithful friends, you have done the work,
And the Devil never can a payday shirk.
"You've bullied the weak, you've robbed the poor,
The starving brother you've turned from the door;
You've laid up gold where the canker rust,
And you have given free vent to your beastly lust.

"You've justice scorned and corruption sown,
And trampled the laws of nature down;
You have drink, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied,
And mocked at God in your hell-born pride.

"You have paid full fare, so I'll carry you through;
For its only right you should have your due.
Why, the laborer always expects his hire,
So I'll land you safe in the lake of fire --
"Where your flesh will waste in the flames that roar,
And my imps torment you forever more."
Then the cowboy awoke with an anguished cry,
His clothes wet with sweat and and his hair standing high.

Then he prayed as he'd never had prayed till that hour
To be saved from his sin and the demon's power.
And his prayers and pleadings were not in vain;
For he never rode the hell-bound train.
traditional, from Songs of the Cowboys, 1921Editor's Note: Here ya' go:Engine
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