railroad folk songs

Subject: railroad folk songs
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 11:53 PM

could anyone reccomend a good place to find traditional railroad folk music in tab or notation, on the internet or otherwise, doesn't matter really, thanks, brian in good ol raleigh,nc

Subject: RE: railroad folk songs
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 12:13 AM

Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, 2nd ed. (University of Illinois Press, 2000) is the best.

~Masato

Subject: RE: railroad folk songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 01:54 AM

Check out Utah Phillips too.

Subject: RE: railroad folk songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 02:07 AM

If you up to the righhand corner of this page to the Lyrics and Knowledge Search, then put "@railroad" without the quotation marks in the search box, then hit the Search button and be a little bit patient, dozens of raailroad-related songs in the Digital Tradition Database (with over 8,000 songs in it), aka The DT, will come up, as well as dozens of threads about specific songs and other related subjects.

Here's a link to Utah Phillips.

kat

Subject: RE: railroad folk songs
From: Hrothgar
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:16 AM

"Long Steel rail" as Masato says.

More general information as well in "A Treasury of American Railroad Folklore" edited by Benjamin A Botkin and Alvin F Harlow; Bonanza Books, 1953; ISBN 0-517-168685; Library of Congress Catalogue Card No 53-9973.