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Just Trains by The Lawmen
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fave it Traditional Country | Bluegrass
16 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Mar 2007
on The Lawmen
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Fireball Mail lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Fireball Mail lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Fireball Mail
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Waitin' For A Train lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Waitin' For A Train lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Waitin' For A Train
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:13 Chattanooga Choo Choo lyrics BUY MP3 03:13 Chattanooga Choo Choo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:13 Chattanooga Choo Choo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:43 Mississippi Rail lyrics BUY MP3 02:43 Mississippi Rail lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:43 Mississippi Rail
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:58 Freight Train lyrics BUY MP3 02:58 Freight Train lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:58 Freight Train
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Hobo Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:39 Hobo Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Hobo Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:52 Big Iron Horses lyrics BUY MP3 03:52 Big Iron Horses lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:52 Big Iron Horses
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 Big Black Train lyrics BUY MP3 03:06 Big Black Train lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:06 Big Black Train
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:23 Raised By The Railroad Line lyrics BUY MP3 03:23 Raised By The Railroad Line lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:23 Raised By The Railroad Line
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:58 Georgia Mail lyrics BUY MP3 01:58 Georgia Mail lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:58 Georgia Mail
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:53 Trains Make Me Lonesome lyrics BUY MP3 03:53 Trains Make Me Lonesome lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:53 Trains Make Me Lonesome
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Lonesome Whistle lyrics BUY MP3 03:24 Lonesome Whistle lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Lonesome Whistle
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:01 I'm Movin' On lyrics BUY MP3 03:01 I'm Movin' On lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:01 I'm Movin' On
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:09 Blue Railroad Train lyrics BUY MP3 03:09 Blue Railroad Train lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:09 Blue Railroad Train
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:04 Daddy Loved Trains lyrics BUY MP3 03:04 Daddy Loved Trains lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:04 Daddy Loved Trains
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Last Train To Heaven lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 Last Train To Heaven lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Last Train To Heaven
"Train Songs" by real railroad employees
Bio / Background
In 1951, D.W. Brosnan, Southern Railway executive vice president of operations and future chairman, began holding meetings for company officers in Almond, N.C., a small town in the mountains west of Asheville.
He asked Snow Baker, a lieutenant in the railroad's police department, to put together some musical entertainment. In short order, Baker rounded up a harmonica, a washtub bass and a guitar from railroad staff, then recruited a "mountain man" who could play banjo and crack jokes, cleaned him up and hired him for the band. Thus was born the "Almond Hillbillies."
With the help of ad hoc groups such as the "Diddie Singers," a chorus of men who led the audience in sing-alongs, and bawdy skits put on by employees spoofing the foibles of the railroad, the Hillbillies entertained the railroaders under a large tent in Almond until 1965, when the Almond meetings ceased and the band disbanded. Some of the original musicians continued to play on their own.
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