What's the use of walking if there's a freight train going your way?
Subtitle: black hoboes & their songs
By: Paul Garon & Gene Tomko.
Contributors: Tomko, Gene.
Publisher: C.H. Kerr
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.; African American musicians.; Hobo songs -- History and criticism. ; Blues (Music) -- Texts.; Tramps -- United States.
Genres: Texts.
Other titles: Black hoboes & their songs; Black hoboes and their songs
Notes: Companion CD contains recordings of songs and performers discussed in the book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-276) and index.
Table of contents: value: Origins of the hobo; value: African Americans in the south; value: Cutting down timber & hauling coal; value: Hobo blues; value: Railroad bulls and hobo jungles; value: 49 highway blues; value: So cold up north; value: Crime, prison and outlaws; value: Organizing migrants; value: Settling down.; value: CD contents.; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew -- Texas Alexander; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew -- Texas Alexander -- Blind Willie McTell; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew -- Texas Alexander -- Blind Willie McTell -- Bukka White; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew -- Texas Alexander -- Blind Willie McTell -- Bukka White -- Wesley Wallace; value: CD contents. -- Tampa Red -- Sam Johnson -- TCI section crew -- Texas Alexander -- Blind Willie McTell -- Bukka White -- Wesley Wallace -- Blind Willie McTell; 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