The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "Songs of Jimmie Rodgers." Rodgers, who died of tuberculosis in 1933 at age 35, was known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Ben Dewberry’s Final Run Jimmie Rodgers - First Sessions, 1927-1928 - Rounder |
| Train Whistle Blues Merle Haggard - Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers - Capitol |
| Hobo's Meditation Swing & Tears - Swing & Tears - Swing & Tears |
| Waiting for a Train John Sebastian - Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian - Reprise |
| Hobo Bill's Last Ride Iris DeMent - The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute - Egyptian/Columbia |
| My Rough and Rowdy Ways Jimmie Rodgers - On the Way Up, 1929 - Rounder |
| Travelin’ Blues (listed as Jimmie’s Texas Blues) Ian & Sylvia - The Lost Tapes - Stony Plain
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| Drunken Bar Room Blues (Gambling Bar Room Blues) Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne - Never No More Blues - Ripple |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| T.B. Blues Jimmie Rodgers - America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 - Rounder |
| Whippin' That Old T.B. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott - Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs - Monitor |
| Any Old Time Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur - Reprise |
| Nobody Knows but Me Peter Keane - Rural Electrification - Little Hat |
| He's in the Jailhouse Now Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley - Gold Cadillac - G-Three
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| Blue Yodel No. 9 Jimmie Rodgers with Louis Armstrong - America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 - Rounder |
| Muleskinner Blues Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues - Tradition |
| Why Should I Be Lonely? Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain - Fallen Angle
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| My Carolina Sunshine Girl J.W. McClure - Interpretations of Jimmie Rodgers - J.W. McClure |
| My Blue Eyed Jane Doc Watson - Portrait - Sugar Hill |
| Gambling Polka Dot Blues Jimmie Rodgers - Down the Old Road, 1931-1932 - Rounder |
| Roll Along Kentucky Moon Leon Redbone - Sugar - Rounder |
| Miss the Mississippi and You Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn - North By Southwest - Arabica |
| Mississippi Delta Blues Robin & Linda Williams - Visions of Love - Sugar Hill |
| When the Cactus is in Bloom Arlo Guthrie - Son of the Wind - Rising Son |
| Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute - Egyptian/Columbia |
| Yodeling My Way Back Home Jimmie Rodgers - Last Sessions, 1933 - Rounder |
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This looks good. Real good! Switched for the CNR in Thunder Bay. Engines mostly. Brakeman is a switchman on the main line track... I'm killin' Fred's, "I like Trains" its a current luv...fun;-) Thanks! Cheque going in the mail (nb: insert "They" for every "man". Used old period terms in historical way. No offense.meant.)
1:18 AM, October 18th, 2022