Artist	Song
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:

Kraftwerk's sleek bullet train of a track, "Trans Europe Express," rolls right out of the station and onto the dance floor in a wash of synthesizers and electronic percussion, punctuated by a slightly sinister melody, as though programmed by a lurking KGB operative. Haywire Mac, also known as Harry McClintock, not only performs "Big Rock Candy Mountain," but he's also alleged to have written it, although in a much rawer form. Since it's a longtime kids' fave, the "cigarette trees" of a hobo's paradise often morph magically into "peppermint trees" . . . and don't even [i]ask[/i] about the original version's "streams of alcohol." And in their country rockin' "Glendale Train," the New Riders of the Purple Sage hippify the exploits of the James Gang's legendary robbery of the Chicago & Alton Railroad's boxcar full of booty.

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