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Product Identifiers

Record LabelCooking Vinyl, Ckv

UPC0711297512311

eBay Product ID (ePID)17046061760

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2016

GenreFolk

ArtistBragg, Billy / Henry, Joe

Release TitleShine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad

Dimensions

Item Height0.38 in

Item Weight0.76 lb

Item Length12.41 in

Item Width12.18 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks13

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Rock Island Line - Traditional (Recorded By Lead Belly, Lonnie Donegan) 1.2 The L;N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Jean Ritchie 1.3 The Midnight Special - Traditional (Lead Belly) 1.4 Railroad Bill - Traditional (Riley Puckett) 1.5 Lonesome Whistle - Hank Williams 1.6 KC Moan - Traditional (The Memphis Jug Band) 1.7 Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers 1.8 In the Pines - Traditional (Lead Belly, the Louvin Brothers) 1.9 Gentle on My Mind - John Hartford (Glenn Campbell, Aretha Franklin) 1.10 Hobo's Lullaby - Goebel Reeves (Woody Guthrie) 1.11 Railroading on the Great Divide - Sara Carter (The Carter Family) 1.12 John Henry - Traditional (Doc Watson) 1.13 Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot

Number of Discs1

NotesVinyl LP pressing. In March 2016, acclaimed singers Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles bound train at Chicago's Union Station with the hope of reconnecting with the culture of American railroad travel and the songs it inspired. Winding along 2,728 miles of track, the pair recorded songs while the train paused to pick up passengers. In waiting rooms and at the track side in St. Louis, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Alpine, El Paso and Tucson, they set up their recording equipment, performing classic railroad songs while keeping one eye on the train, bounding back aboard just before pulling out for the next town. After four days crossing the country, they pulled into Los Angeles at 4:30am, recording their final song in Union Station at dawn, just as the first birds began to sing. The resulting album Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad takes listeners along on that journey and will be released September 2016 on Cooking Vinyl Records. The album features the perfectly matched voices of Bragg & Henry and captures the varied atmospheres and environments in which they recorded - from the close proximity of soft furnished sleeping cars to cathedral-like ambience of waiting halls built to hold thousands of passengers. Containing thirteen-songs originally recorded by legendary singers such as Lead Belly, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and more, Shine A Light reveals an often forgotten but integral part of America's musical heritage