Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970)

Various Artists - Blues | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lost Highway
• ASIN: B0001DMWFW
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,437 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #88 in Music > Blues > Jump Blues

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Nashville Jumps

2. Buzzard Pie

3. Skip's Boogie

4. L & N Special

5. Sittin' Here Drinking

6. Just Walkin In The Rain

7. If You And I Could Be Sweethearts

8. Baby Let's Play House

9. Christene

10. It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. WLAC Air Check/Monkey Doin' Woman

2. What'd I Say

3. Really Part 1

4. Just Like Him

5. Anna (Go To Him)

6. Snap Your Fingers

7. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean

8. Something Tells Me

9. Sunny

10. I Want To Do Everything For You

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

WONDERFUL 2 CD SET

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

114 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What little info I know, March 8, 2004

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Pat Kelly (Here, There & Everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970) (Audio CD)

Since Amazon failed to include the artists on this 2-CD set of classic R&B from Nashville, I thought I'd provide it, as well as what little I know of the artists & songs involved.

1. Nashville Jumps / Cecil Gant 2:57
2. Buzzard Pie / Green, Rudy & His Orchestra 2:43
3. Skip's Boogie / Kid King's Combo 2:56
4. L&N Special / Christine Kittrell 2:33
5. Sittin' Here Drinking / Christine Kittrell 3:31
6. Just Walkin' in the Rain / The Prisonaires 2:45
7. If You and I Could Be Sweethearts / The Varieteers 2:20
8. Baby Let's Play House / Arthur Gunter 2:46
9. Christene / Little Hank & The Rhythm Kings 2:46
10. It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day) / Earl Gaines 2:41
11. Rollin' Stone / The Marigolds 2:55
12. You Can Make It If You Try / Gene Allison 2:10
13. Rockin' the Joint / Esquerita 2:02
14. Let's Trade a Little / Audrey Bryant 2:07
15. Say You Really Care / Roscoe Shelton 2:26
16. Somebody, Somewhere / Larry Birdsong 2:36
17. Pipe Dreams / Beck, Jimmy & His Orchestra 2:16
18. Royal Crown Hair Dressing Ad / Little Richard 0:29
Bonus Track
19. White Rose (Theme) / Earl Gaines 2:02
Bonus Track


DISC 2
1. John R Theme/Ernie's Record Mart Commercial /Monkey Doin' Woman / John Richbourg 3:13
2. Monkey Doin' Woman
3. What'd I Say / Etta James 3:17
--Cover of the Ray Charles classic. Live
4. Really, Pt. 1 / Jones, Johnny & The Imperial 7 2:13
5. Just Like Him / Frank Howard & The Commanders 2:35
6. Anna (Go to Him) / Arthur Alexander 2:50
--This song was later covered by the Beatles, and Alexander is the only person to ever have been covered by the Beatles, Stones and Bob Dylan.
7. Snap Your Fingers / Joe Henderson 3:00
8. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean / Ruth Brown 2:58
9. Something Tells Me / Sam Baler 2:25
10. Sunny / Bobby Hebb 2:48
--Top 5 pop hit from 1967
11. I Want To (Do Everything for You) / Joe Tex 2:09

-- Later covered by 70's hard rock band Nazareth
12. Bigger and Better / The Hytones 2:24
13. Since I Met You Baby / The Avons 2:42
14. The Chokin' Kind / Joe Simon 2:42
--The original of the song covered by Joss Stone on "The Soul Seesions".
15. She Shot a Hole in My Soul / Clifford Curry 2:26
16. Gotta Get Yourself Together / Valentines 2:32
17. Soul Shake / Jo Jo Benson 2:26
--Covered later by Delaney & Bonnie
18. Reconsider Me / Johnny Adams 3:50
19. Everlasting Love / Robert Knight 2:59
--Terrific song that's been covered by Carl Carlton, U2, Gloria Estafan and, uhh, Rex Smith with Suzi Quatro. This is the original.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazonic Regression . . ., June 28, 2004

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Harrison Taylor (Bahia Beach, Fla. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970) (Audio CD)

I read all the other reviews and realized that this album is many things to many people. I was impressed by how many people took the effort to review this great collector's item. For myself, it was a bolt out of the blue thanks to being featured on the SUNDAY MORNING TV show. When I was 14 years old (1954) I built a HEATHKIT short-wave radio. I strung 100' of copper wire from our TV antenna tower to the top of the basketball pole. All I had hoped for was to get the BBC or Radio Free Europe. What I got [instead] was Radio Free Nashville ! WLAC, Bill Allen and music I had only heard rumors of. "That kind of music" was not played on mainstream radio in those days. Word got around school that I was listening to Little Richard, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, and Jimmy Reed. I didn't get any more chicks because of it, but it put me in a very elite group of R&B listeners. Once again, AMAZON DOT COM makes regression to our childhoods possible! Thanks, you guys . . . Harrison T.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Music You Never Heard, July 28, 2004

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Kaneonapua "the dog lady" (Springfield, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970) (Audio CD)

This is a a wonderful compilation. The title of my review is stolen from a NY Times review of the Night Train to Nashville that made me go out and buy it. It isn't totally true since I recognized some of the later songs but it was an eye opener. It is pretty sad that most of the country missed out on some of the greatest music of their time; especially when pap like How Much is that Doggie in the Window was being shoved down people throats.

My husband and I enjoyed listening to the CDs on a 5 hour long road trip and thoroughly enjoyed them. There was enough style changes and diverstity to keep you interested and a lot of solid artistry. The White Rose petroleum jelly ad and the Little Richard commercial are a hoot!