The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger

'2:19 Blues (Mamie's Blues)' (Mamie Desdunes) by Louis Armstrong, Jeff Barnhart, Acker Bilk, Canadian Brass, Ken Colyer, Karen Dalton, Art Hodes, Papa Bue Jensen, Bunk Johnson, Jo Ann Kelly, Cy Laurie, George Lewis, Paul Lingle, Jelly Roll Morton, Leon Redbone, Dave Van Ronk, Eric Von Schmidt and Rolf Cahn.

' 2:19' (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) by Jerry Douglas, Tom Waits.'2:15' ( John Philip Sousa), copyright 1889.'2:10 Train' (Tom Campbell/Linda Albertano) by Chesapeake, the Fenians, Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein, Steve Gillette, Carolyn Hester, Taj Mahal, Rising Sons, Linda Ronstadt and Stone Poneys.Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z External Links Besides recorded works, the list includes songs that preceded the first wax cylinder records of the late 1800s and were published as either broadsides or sheet music. Most have appeared on commercially released albums and singles and are notable for either their composers, the musicians who performed them, or their place in the history of the form. įollowing is a list of nearly 800 songs by artists worldwide, alphabetized by song title. The number of train songs that have appeared since then is impossible to determine, not only because of the difficulties in documenting the songs but also in defining the genre. Another song written for the occasion, 'Rail Road March' by Charles Meineke, was copyrighted two days after Clifton's, one day before the July 4 ceremonies. 'The Carrollton March', copyrighted July 1, 1828, was composed by Arthur Clifton to commemorate the groundbreaking of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The earliest known train songs date to two years before the first public railway began operating in the United States. While the prominence of railroads in the United States has faded in recent decades, the train endures as a common image in popular song.

Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde. Sheet music for the first-known train song Ĭommemoration of the groundbreaking for the Baltimore & Ohio RailroadĪ train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads.

The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger