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Such a good blues tune by the late, great, Charles Brown:

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Song: Hard Drivin' Man
Artist: J. Geils Band

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RIP, Mr. Geils.
 
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Welcome Kolario, and yes, Alan Parsons- here's one from their 1977 album:

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Song: Make Me Smile
Artist: Chicago

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Terry Kath on lead vocals and lead guitar.
 
The "Dollars" trilogy from Sergio Leone and music by Ennio Morricone, gotta be the best western films and music, ever:

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Title: Black Mountain Rag
Artist: Doc and Merle Watson

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Doc Watson and his son Merle team up for a truly wonderful rendition of this traditional American country song.

I don't know that it's possible to cram more notes into 2:39.
 
Well, today was Marathon Monday. And although I didn't run it, I did start to think about getting fit, and will begin by commuting by bicycle starting tomorrow (12 miles between home and work for me, 24 miles per day).

So that got me to thinking about training, and naturally, I thought about music. And so here are some songs about training. Well, not training itself, but something like training.

Trains.

There are lots of songs about trains - here are a few of my favorites.



Title: New Train
Artist: John Prine





Title: New River Train
Artist: Doc and Merle Watson





Title: Waiting For A Train
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitarist for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna)

 
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Well, today was Marathon Monday. And although I didn't run it, I did start to think about getting fit, and will begin by commuting by bicycle starting tomorrow (12 miles between home and work for me, 24 miles per day).

So that got me to thinking about training, and naturally, I thought about music. And so here are some songs about training. Well, not training itself, but something like training.

Trains.

There are lots of songs about trains - here are a few of my favorites.


Title: New Train
Artist: John Prine

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Title: New River Train
Artist: Doc and Merle Watson

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Title: Waiting For A Train
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitarist for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna)

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Love the singing mailman,

And train songs.

Here's the Kingston Trio recording of an old '50's folk number by Terry Gylkyson, the haunting "Fast Freight".
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And needing no intro:


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Cheers
 
Some excellent recent additions

BTW, that Blue Country Heart CD by Kaukonen is not only chalk full of great performances by the sound quality is off the charts. It's a demo disc is use often to show off my audio systems.

Here's some Muddy Waters ......

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So, a week ago me and the boys went out to the Narrows in Fall River, Ma. to see Kinky Friedman-- who was a huge favorite of ours from back in the day and his music has weathered the test of time rather well, imo.

It was an amazing night.

I got there early and was out front of the venue having a cigar with Kinky himself and his vampire-like guitar player Joe when the rest of them arrived and the man was simply hilarious. He held court on a number of topics and it was a rare treat and the show had not yet started. One key piece of advice he imparted was to do whatever the fvck you wanted with your life even if that means selling your house and losing the money on the slots in Vegas. He also called Robin Williams a coward for killing himself and recounted the story of how Nelson Mandela's only comfort in prison was a copy of Kinky's seminal "Sold American" album which he wore out playing. True story.

I've never seen a show like it before. There were maybe 75 people in attendance at the small venue and I, therefore, had a prime seat to see a legendary genius try to catch a few sparks in front of a crowd that could fit in a bus.

He started out the evening with three fingers of "Mexican mouthwash" -- his own brand of tequila and spent the evening telling colorful stories and jokes, read a chapter from one of his books (which had me holding my sides in helpless laughter) and interspersed his monologues with the occasional song.

I've never seen an entertainer get absolutely shitfaced onstage or at least so's you could notice, but Kinky polished off the better part of a fifth during the show. He got so trashed that he couldn't get his guitar back on the stand and laid it on the floor instead and somehow the drunker he got the better the show got, such as the Kinkster dispensing pearls of wisdom such as: "You know.....money will buy you a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail".

At one point, he got completely lost in the middle of a song and stopped it dead in it's tracks to start over, this time rallying his powers of concentration enough to make it a piece of transcendant brilliance from a 72-year old drunken troubadour.

I can't recall seeing a show that was so thoroughly entertaining, offbeat and satisfying all at the same time.

If you are not familiar with him this clip should give you a good idea what it was like, but it is NSFW.


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Song: The AlleyCat
Artist: Bent Fabric

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Another one of those songs where you might not recognize the title or the artist, but you know the tune almost immediately.
 
One of my favorite train songs from the 70's:

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Ah heck, another one:

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"If you have ever heard the locomotive shake the ground, then you don't have to be told, and I'm going down to the RR tracks and watch them lonesome box cars roll"
 
Ah, what the hey, I'm on a Joe Ely kick right now - another great train song:

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Great tune from '66, these guys sounded much like the Righteous Brothers:

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Song: Vacant Chair
Artist: Steve Winwood

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One of his best songs.
 
So thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, this song has been stuck in my head.


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