Today’s show is inspired by the romantic ideal of hobos hopping trains with their worldly possessions wrapped up in a bandanna tied to a stick, traveling a country suffering from the Great Depression in search of food and shelter. All the songs today are about trains and train travel.
- 10:02pm Mystery Train by Narvel Felts on Those Rockabilly Days (Stomper Time Records)
- 10:04pm Big Black Train by Flat & Scruggs on The Essential Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (sony)
- 10:06pm Blue Train by Johnny Cash on The Original Sun Recordings Part 2 (Sun Records)
- 10:09pm Graveyard Train by Creedence Clearwater Revival on Bayou Country (40th Anniversary Edition) (Concord Music Group)
- 10:18pm Hellbound Train by Three Bad Jacks on Crazy In The Head (Boston Krown)
- 10:20pm Midnight Train To Georgia by Gladys Knight & The Pips on Love Songs (Sony)
- 10:25pm This Train Is Bound For Glory by Old Crow Medicine Show, Joel Rafael, Jimmy LaFave, Donovan, Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Lucinda Williams, Judy Collins, Tom Morello, Ani DiFranco, Ry Cooder, Dan Gellert, Jackson Browne, The Del McCoury Band, Tony Trischka, Tim on Woody Guthrie: At 100! (Woody Guthrie Publications)
- 10:31pm Midnight Train To Memphis by The Steeldrivers on The Steeldrivers (Rounder Records)
- 10:34pm Houston Train by Houndmouth on From The Hills Below The City (Rough Trade)
- 10:37pm Slow Train by Joe Bonamassa on Dust Bowl (J & R Adventures)
- 10:44pm I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train by Billy Joe Shaver on Billy Joe Shaver (Columbia Records)
- 10:48pm Night Train by James Brown on 20 All-Time Greatest Hits (Universal)
- 10:51pm Mystery Train by Elvis Presley on For LP Fans Only (RCA)
- 10:54pm Hear My Train A Comin’ (Acoustic) by Jimi Hendrix on Blues (Sony)
- 10:57pm Rueben’s Train by Leftover Salmon on 25 (LoS Records/BMG)
