Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad

**Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad** is the nineteenth studio album by country/western swing band Riders In The Sky. It was the first Riders album to be produced independently of a record company, and was sold and distributed by the Tweetsie Railroad theme park in 2002.

## Track List

1. *Tweetsie Railroad Line*
2. *New River Train*
3. *Casey Jones*
4. *Great Northern*
5. *Rock Island Line*
6. *I've Been Working On The Railroad*
7. *Here Comes The Santa Fe*
8. *Railroad Corral*
9. *Tweetsie Junction*
10. *Orange Blossom Special*
11. *Ghost Train*
12. *Way Out There*
13. *Wabash Cannonball*

## Credits

### Riders In The Sky

* Ranger Doug (Douglas B. Green) - Guitar, vocals
* Too Slim (Fred LaBour) - Bunkhouse bass, vocals
* Woody Paul (Paul Chrisman) - Fiddle, vocals
* Joey The Cow-Polka King (Joey Miskulin) - Accordion, vocals, sound effects

### Additional Musicians

* Richard O'Brien - Guitar
* John Gardner - Percussion

### Studio

* Joey Miskulin - Producer, engineer
* Brett Truitt,- Engineer
* Tim Robers - Engineer
* Keith Compton - Mixer
* Denny Purcell - Master
* Carlos Grier - Editor (Gerogetown Masters)

### Other

* Brandon D. Taylor - Production Coordinator
* Jim Allen - Photographer
* Maggie Bean - Album Design

## Liner Notes

*Last August... as we rode up the big hill to our annual show at Tweetsie Railroad under the big yellow and white striped tent, the idea for this recording was born. Hundreds of kids and their families waited for us there under a Carolina blue sky, ready for fun, cowboy music, rope spinning, eye-popping shirts, yodeling, and big hats.*

*The kids were decked out, as they always are at Tweetsie, in cowboy hats and ropes and six-shootin' capguns as the Tweetsie locomotive built a head of steam down below. Suddenly it all made sense. "We oughta record a CD of train songs for Tweetsie," I said. Cowboy Chris, the boss at Tweetsie, gave a big thumbs up, climbed aboard, and we were off, paying tribute to one of our favorite places.*

*I like Tweetsie Railroad because 1. it's low-tech fun; it lets a kid's imagination do the entertaining without computers and holograms and lasers. And 2. it's a family run deal. You don't call corporate headquarters in Los Angeles or Tokyo to talk to the Boss. You call Blowing Rock, North Carolina.*

*I like Tweetsie's pedigree too. Singing cowboy legend, Gene Autry, once owned old Locomotive No. 12. After he sold the steam engine to Cowboy Chris's family for $1, she was returned to the Blue Ridge Mountains to start an entertainment tradition we're proud to be a small part of.*

*We've performed at Tweetsie many a time since 1980. Folks that were tykes there two decades ago are now bringing their kids to make some Tweetsie memories and here's why: Tweetsie's fun. We should know. We've brought our own kids many times, ridden that wonderful train into Outlaw Territory and Indian battles, prospected for gold, discovered the Mouse Mine, swayed on the chairlift and Tilt-a-Whirl and Ferris Wheel, eaten cotton candy, blasted capguns, and loaded tired, sticky, happy kids into cars at the end of a great day.*

*So enjoy these railway tunes - the Riders' originals written just for Tweetsie and the classic family sing-a-longs. We hope you pop this CD into the deck, and remember a day of railroad and Western fun.*

*Long may you blast your whistle, Tweetsie. Someday I'm gonna bring my grandkids. All Aboard!*

- Too Slim (March 2002)

## Recording Dates

* October 29th, 2001 (Brett Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Here Comes The Santa Fe*
	+ *Way Out There*
* January 29th, 2002 (Brett Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Railroad Corral*
	+ *Great Northern*
* January 30th, 2002 (Brett Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Tweetsie Railroad Line*
	+ *Wabash Cannonball*
	+ *Orange Blossom Special*
* January 31st, 2002 (Brett Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *New River Train*
	+ *Rock Island Line*
	+ *I've Been Working On The Railroad*
* February 1st, 2002 (Brett Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Casey Jones*
	+ *Tweetsie Junction*
	+ *Ghost Train*