Utah Phillips with Starlight On The Rails off of his '73 Good Though! album.
 

 

Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band with Texas Eagle off of their '99 The Mountain CD.
 

 

Bessie Smith with Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down recorded in '24.
 

 

Jerry Lee Lewis with the '22 Al Jolson tune Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye) off of his '80 When Two Worlds Collide album.
 

 

The Eagles with Train Leaves Here This Morning off of their '72 self-titled debut album.
 

 

 Cream performing Traintime live at the Fillmore off of their '68 Wheels Of Fire album.
 

 

Kraftwerk with the title track of their '77 Trans-Europe Express LP.
 

 

These got a fair bit of publicity around the late 70's in the UK. Bought their first album and then didn't hear much about them since then.

 

 

 

Grateful Dead with Big Railroad Blues off of their '71 Grateful Dead 'Skull & Roses' LP.
 

 

Booker T. & The MG's with Big Train off of their '63 Big Train EP.
 

 

John Fogerty with Big Train (From Memphis) off of his '84 Centerfield LP.
 

 

The Doors performing Black Train Song (Mystery Train) live at The Spectrum in Philadelphia on May 1, '70.
 

 

Robert Plant & Jimmy Page with Blue Train off of their '98 Walking Into Clarksdale album.
 

 

24 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

These got a fair bit of publicity around the late 70's in the UK. Bought their first album and then didn't hear much about them since then.

 

 

 

Yeah, they were a hard southern rock band and went the way of most southern rock bands.  Southern rock was great while it lasted.  Good tune, though.

Martin Denny with Burma Train off of his '58 Primitiva LP.  The exotic sounds make me feel like I'm somewhere in SE Asia.  Weird.  

 

 

Alexis Korner & Davey Graham with Davy's Train Blues off of their '62 3/4 A.D. album.
 

 

Petula Clark with her '67 hit single Don't Sleep On The Subway.
 

 

Ex-Ricky Nelson guitarist extraordinaire James Burton with Junior Parker's Mystery Train off of his '71 The Guitar Sounds Of James Burton solo album.

 

 

And an excellent live version of Mystery Train featuring James Burton along with Vince Gill , Keb Mo, Albert Lee & Earl Klugh at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads festival in Chicago.

And I'm off to catch the Bangkok Sky Train . . . 
 

 

A break for some musical history.  James Burton AKA Master of the Telecaster.
 

 

15 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Alexis Korner & Davey Graham with Davy's Train Blues off of their '62 3/4 A.D. album.

Alexis had a one hour show on Radio 1 on Sundays after the top 20 singles chart. He'd play blues, rock, soul, country etc, and I'd listen with pen and paper ready to jot down the song titles and artists. Then later hunt down the albums the tracks were from in second hand record shops. 

Here's one from the 'Shades' album that I had to buy new because it was a new release.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, bobandyson said:

Alexis had a one hour show on Radio 1 on Sundays after the top 20 singles chart. He'd play blues, rock, soul, country etc, and I'd listen with pen and paper ready to jot down the song titles and artists. Then later hunt down the albums the tracks were from in second hand record shops. 

Here's one from the 'Shades' album that I had to buy new because it was a new release.

 

 

 

Nice story relating the excitement of a music enthusiast getting turned on to great music, bobandyson.  I can empathise.

I had been into collecting music since the 60's, obviously all on vinyl, but so much of the older stuff was out of print and couldn't be found any longer.  Along came the new media type, CDs, and all of a sudden they were reissuing all of the out of print music onto this new format.  Not only that but they started releasing previously unreleased material as well, via bonus tracks or even complete standalones.  Fleetwood Mac live at the Boston Tea Party being a case in point.

I would go into record stores in the 90's and drool over all of the music that was again available.  But my first source was music clubs like BMG and Columbia.  You sign up under an obligation to buy X amount of premium priced CDs over a year.  But they ran special offers of $0.99~+ CDs throughout the year.  The deal was to buy one regular selection and then take as many specials as you wanted.  So I would only buy regular selections during these special offers in order to dilute the high premium price to the point that it was well under what I could buy it for at a record shop.  My other strategy was free CDs by joining others.

1,500 CDs later and now we're into file sharing and YouTube.  The availability of personally collectable music now is unlimited.

 

In the past, Thai train journeys at night were fun and romantic, in the sense of being on a journey.

For over 20 years I worked in Bangkok whilst my Thai family lived in Udon Thani province. Long weekends, holidays, I must have got the night train countless times.

There used to be a buffet car serving beer, food and playing Thai music. It was open windows, no air con. As the train rocked along, gaining speed outside Bangkok, it was great fun to drink, eat and chat to fellow travellers whilst the world outside passed by, so close. You could smell the earth.

Then a Thai railway official raped and killed a 14 year old girl on the night train from the south to Bangkok. He blamed a mixture of alcohol and amphetamines for releasing his inhibitions.

All alcohol on trains and train stations was banned for all!

Then air con trains replaced the older carriages. The outside world was now cut off from those inside the train who by now always turned to their phones for human interaction.

The romance was dead.

 

When life kicks you in the teeth

 

15 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

I would go into record stores in the 90's and drool over all of the music that was again available.

Same here,some second hand lp shops were in the neighborhood also,located in between

coffee shops.Yes the smoking kind,you could almost get high walking by.

I bought a lot of cd's in the nineties,mostly older music but some new.

I had a nice sound system and i would listen to good sound and good music most every day.

Now i still enjoy listening but now i also like to watch.Music videos is mostly the norm now.

Classical  i still like to listen to with my eyes closed.

 

 

 

 

 

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