Western Railroad Songs (Disc 1 of 3)

by Keith & Rusty McNeil

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1.	900 Miles 03:05	info	buy track
2.	A Railroader For Me 03:39	info	buy track
3.	Railroad Traveler 02:32	info	buy track
4.	The Rock Island Line 01:36	info	buy track
5.	The Great Rock Island Route 02:43	info	buy track
6.	The Railroad Cars Are Coming 02:20	info	buy track
7.	Kansas Land 03:45	info	buy track
8.	Subsidy, A Goat Island Ballad 05:16	info	buy track
9.	John Chinaman, My Jo 02:40	info	buy track
10.	Twelve Hundred More 03:14	info	buy track
11.	Mick Upon The Railroad 02:18	info	buy track
12.	Tamping Ties 01:39	info	buy track
13.	Drill Ye Tarriers 03:07	info	buy track
14.	The Iron Horse 03:15	info	buy track
15.	The Hell-Bound Train 03:48	info	buy track
16.	Chinese Breakdown / Gamblin' Blackie 04:09	info	buy track

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Volume 5 Disk 1 of the six volume 15 CD set "American History Through Folksong"

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released June 20, 1994

Rusty McNeil - Narration, Vocals, Guitar
Keith McNeil - Narration, Vocals, Tenor Banjo, 5-String Banjo, 6 and 12-String Guitars, Harmonica, Tin Whistle, Clarinet, Mandolin
Clabe Hangan - Vocals, Guitar
Darrin Schuck - Piano
Stacey Slaughter - Fiddle
Randy Cierley - Bass
Mike McNeil - Vocals
Sarah McNeil - Vocals, Fiddle
Jennifer McNeil - Vocals
Ed Wilbourne - Vocals
Chet Roistacher - Mandolin

The choruses of the songs are made up of combinations of the following people: Mike Curtin, Clabe Hangan, Joe and Liz Smiddy, Ed Wilbourne, Bill Junkert, Ed Pallette, Darrin Schuck, Keith, Rusty, Mike, David, Jennifer, and Sarah McNeil.

This volume is dedicated to Norm Cohen who provided invaluable assistance both personally and through his book Long Steel Rail. We are also indebted to the California State Railroad Museum, the Huntington Library, the Santa Fe Archives of the Kansas State Historical Society, the Library of Congress, the Fred Harvey Company, and many publications of folk song collectors and scholars, especially Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, Ben A. Botkin, Alvin F. Harlow, Carl Sandburg, John and Alan Lomax, John Greenway, Thomas E. Cheney, Austin and Alta Fife, Edward Arthur Dolph, Irwin Silber, Sigmund Spaeth and William E. Koch.

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Keith & Rusty McNeil California

In 1966 Keith left his comfortable middle management job when he and Rusty decided to spend full time teaching American history through folk song. Their goal was to build bridges of understanding and appreciation between Americans of different religions, nationalities, ethnic and racial backgrounds, economic status, ages, gender and political persuasions, using history through folk song. ... more

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