Great Train Songs: An Amrican Legend
America has always been in love with trains. Their appeal is almost universal. Train songs have always been a very popular musical genre, with literally thousands of them having been written. This 1965 album finds Roy Acuff revisiting many classic train songs that he personally made popular and recorded during his long career. Songs include the harmonica-driven rouser Freight Train Blues, a song he first cut in 1947, as well as revivals of his romping '42 classics Night Train To Memphis and Fireball Mail, the ubiquitous Wabash Cannonball, Hank Williams' Pan American, and Roy's own The Streamline Cannonball.