Train Whistle Blues

Merle Haggard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 18, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B00005NNKW
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,479 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Love Affair With Trains

2. Blues for Dixie

3. My Rough and Rowdy Ways

4. California Blues [Blue Yodel No. 4]

5. Waiting for a Train

6. White Man Singin' the Blues

7. Train Whistle Blues

8. Hobo's Meditation

9. Hobo Bill's Last Ride

10. The Silver Ghost

11. Life's Railway to Heaven

12. The Coming and the Going of the Trains

13. No More Trains to Ride

14. The Hobo

15. Milwaukee Road 261 at Theresa, WS, June 25, 1998 [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shortage of Good Train Song CDs, August 1, 2005

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S. Crail (Orange County, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Train Whistle Blues (Audio CD)

Why is it so hard to find a good collection of train songs? This album was an exciting find for the father of a four-year-old train nut. I've always been partial to Merle Haggard, so the opportunity for my son to get a fix of train songs and be indoctrinated into my world of good, old country music was one I could not pass up. I would give it five stars but for the fact that a few of the songs are more about the destination than the mode of transportation. Frankly my son is too young to care about the benefits of living in the south...he just wants to hear a train whistle and what the engineer said to the brakeman.
So five stars just because it is Merle, three stars for the selection of songs equals four stars.

PS - the best "song" on the entire album is Merle's a cappella opening lines of "Mama tried". Man, what a voice!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Merlw haggard At His Best, January 12, 2007

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Peter Behr "Pidde" (Southern Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Train Whistle Blues (Audio CD)

Woh, As An Old Railraodman, I Realy Like This Album From The Very First Song--To The End. Great Job Merle