The old blues music was inspired by the rhythm of the trains …
title=”Shay Race” – photo by jterry618, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com
me, playing the Midnight Special prison blues:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/midnight-specialwav
related: http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/trains-trains-and-rairoad-songs/
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http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/midnight-special/
STACEY EARLE & MARK STUART
Saint Louis Ragtimers
Lonnie Donegan
Bobby Darin
Van Morrison
leadbelly
Johnny Rivers
The Kingston Trio
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I love the leadbelly version..and big Joe Turner… 😉 and mine as well heehee! nice one
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A walk down memory lane.
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When I travel with the kids, we put The Kingston Trio in the CD player, crank up the volume and sing along. Great post!
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Great tunes!
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Great “Midnight Special”, Frizz!
🙂
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Timeless, beautiful music that reminds us of the goodness around us as well as the past that offered so many wonderful memories.
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A nice collection of music today!
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I hope you didn’t make a deal with the devil as the legend says about Robert Johnson….
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merci for mentioning Robert Johnson, yes, he is one of my guitar heroes but he died aged 29 I believe (and I’m 68) – so there must be a difference: I did not live as risky as he liked to do …
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I’ve written a review for amazon at
http://www.amazon.de/review/R10KTUL1CA8NT9
it’s in German, but maybe you send it through the google translate machine 🙂
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I didn’t listen to all the UTubes yet, but Frizz and the magical kazoo is a pleasure on the ears!
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Not praise me too much, Bumba, I might be tempted otherwise, to play my magic kazoo version of “House Of The Rising Sun” briefly play alongside your gifted harmonica version!
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uuh, I’ve done it again:
I’ll search for your version …
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So beautiful… so beautiful… Thank you dear Frizz, love, nia
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Timless
I could hear this the hole night
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Now you’ve put on a Dobro for Miss Rosie, which is magnificent. I, too, am captured by the image of Miss Rosie. Terrific!
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maybe I should make a sketch of the train race with much steam…
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