The theme on Stranger Songs this week is Train Songs. Trains and what they represent have been fodder for song creators since the 19th century and today’s show will not even scratch the surface – so you can be sure we’ll do another train show sometime.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Waiting for a Train Eve Goldberg - Ever Brightening Day - Sweet Patootie
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| Hear That Lonesome Whistle James Talley - Journey – The Second Voyage - Cimarron |
| Rock Island Line Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Blues Masters, Vol. 5 - Storyville |
| Freight Train Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Ani DiFranco - Preservation - Preservation Hall |
| Northshore Train Bill Garrett - Bill Garrett - Borealis
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| Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train Happy & Artie Traum - Hard Times in the Country - Rounder |
| Steel Rail Blues Seldom Scene - Changes - Rounder
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| Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot - Songbook - Warner Archives/Rhino
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| Take the A Train Craig Duncan - Bluegrass Swing - Green Hill Productions |
| Hobo's Lullaby Crowes Pasture - Crowes Pasture - Crowes Pasture |
| Mean Old Frisco Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Peter Weldon
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| Old 97 Last Forever - No Place Like Home/Last Forever - 2nd Story Sound |
| City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie - Here Come the Kids - Rising Son |
| Morning Train Veronika Jackson - The Woman I Am - Acoustic with Heart Productions |
| Talkin' Wolverine 14 Rosalie Sorrels - Travelin’ Lady Rides Again - Green Linnet |
| Talkin' Casey Andy Cohen - Tryin’ to Get Home - Earwig |
| I Rode 'Em All Anne Hills - Tracks - Hand & Heart Music |
| Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Louis Jordan - The Later Years 1953-1957 - JSP |
| When that Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ Jackie Washington - Midnight Choo Choo - Borealis
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| Cannonball Blues Sue Foley - The Ice Queen - Stony Plain
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| The Panama Limited Tom Rush - Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO) - BGO |
| Wabash Cannonball/Tolono Utah Phillips - Good Though! - Philo |
| Train in the Rain Bruce Cockburn - Speechless - True North
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Looking forward to this show, the day after my first dose of vaccine. I'm sure I'll enjoy all of the songs, and maybe even discover someone new.
10:42 AM, April 12th, 2021