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06 Jul 03 - 11:53 PM (#978080) Subject: railroad folk songs From: GUEST 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 |
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07 Jul 03 - 12:13 AM (#978083) Subject: RE: railroad folk songs From: masato sakurai Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, 2nd ed. (University of Illinois Press, 2000) is the best. ~Masato |
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07 Jul 03 - 01:54 AM (#978102) Subject: RE: railroad folk songs From: GUEST Check out Utah Phillips too. |
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07 Jul 03 - 02:07 AM (#978107) Subject: RE: railroad folk songs From: katlaughing 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 |
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07 Jul 03 - 06:16 AM (#978159) Subject: RE: railroad folk songs From: Hrothgar "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. |