The Singing Brakeman

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Soldier’s Sweetheart
  3:08
• 2
  Sleep, Baby, Sleep
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Ben Dewberry’s Final Run
  3:28
• 4
  Mother Was a Lady
  3:23
• 5
  Blue Yodel (T for Texas)
  3:26
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Away Out on the Mountain
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Treasures Untold
  3:07
• 9
  The Brakeman’s Blues
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 10
  The Sailor’s Plea
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 11
  In the Jailhouse Now
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Blue Yodel #2
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Memphis Yodel
  3:33
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Blue Yodel #3
  3:14
• 15
  My Old Pal
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Mississippi Moon
  3:15
• 17
  My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 18
  You and My Old Guitar
  3:01
• 19
  Daddy and Home
  2:58
  3.5 ★
• 20
  My Little Lady
  3:06
• 21
  I’m Lonely and Blue
  3:18
• 22
  Lullaby Yodel
  3:13
• 23
  Never No Mo’ Blues
  2:41
  5.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  My Carolina Sunshine Girl
  3:00
• 2
  Blue Yodel #4
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Waiting for a Train
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I’m Lonely and Blue
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Desert Blues
  2:47
• 6
  Any Old Time
  2:48
• 7
  Blue Yodel #5
  2:34
• 8
  High Powered Mama
  2:59
• 9
  I’m Sorry We Met
  2:21
• 10
  Everybody Does It in Hawaii
  2:52
• 11
  Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
  2:54
• 12
  Train Whistle Blues
  3:00
• 13
  Jimmie’s Texas Blues
  2:50
• 14
  Frankie and Johnny
  2:52
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Frankie and Johnny
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Home Call
  2:36
• 17
  Home Call
  2:37
• 18
  Whisper Your Mother’s Name
  3:27
• 19
  The Land of My Boyhood Dreams
  2:37
• 20
  The Land of My Boyhood Dreams
  2:58
• 21
  Blue Yodel #6
  3:08
• 22
  Yodeling Cowboy
  3:14
• 23
  My Rough and Rowdy Ways
  2:33
• 24
  I’ve Ranged, I’ve Roamed, I’ve Traveled
  3:02
• 25
  I’ve Ranged, I’ve Roamed, I’ve Traveled
  2:53
• 26
  Hobo Bill’s Last Ride
  2:37
• CD 3
• 1
  Mississippi River Blues
  2:35
• 2
  Mississippi River Blues
  2:37
• 3
  Nobody Knows but Me
  2:40
• 4
  Anniversary Blue Yodel
  2:56
• 5
  Anniversary Blue Yodel
  2:49
• 6
  She Was Happy Till She Met You
  2:46
• 7
  Blue Yodel #11
  3:01
• 8
  Blue Yodel #11
  2:56
• 9
  A Drunkard’s Child
  3:21
• 10
  That’s Why I’m Blue
  2:19
• 11
  Why Did You Give Me Your Love?
  2:27
• 12
  Why Did You Give Me Your Love?
  2:36
• 13
  My Blue Eyed Jane
  2:48
• 14
  Why Should I Be Lonely?
  3:10
• 15
  Moonlight and Skies
  3:00
• 16
  Pistol Packin’ Papa
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Take Me Back Again
  3:10
• 18
  Those Gambler’s Blues
  2:52
• 19
  I’m Lonesome, Too
  3:20
• 20
  The One Rose
  2:41
• 21
  For the Sake of Days Gone By
  3:21
• 22
  Jimmie’s Mean Mama Blues
  3:18
• 23
  The Mystery of Number Five
  3:02
• 24
  Blue Yodel #8
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  In the Jailhouse Now #2
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Blue Yodel #9
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 3
  T.B. Blues
  2:57
• 4
  T.B. Blues
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Travelin’ Blues
  2:46
• 6
  Travelin’ Blues
  2:47
• 7
  Travelin’ Blues
  3:11
• 8
  Jimmie the Kid
  2:50
• 9
  Jimmie the Kid
  2:56
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Why There’s a Tear in My Eye

  feat. Sara Carter
  3:11
• 11
  The Wonderful City

  feat. Sara Carter
  2:57
• 12
  Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
  2:43
• 14
  Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
  2:51
• 15
  Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family
  3:19
• 16
  The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers in Texas
  3:18
• 17
  When the Cactus Is in Bloom
  3:17
• 18
  Gambling Polka Dot Blues
  3:25
• 19
  Looking for a New Mama
  3:18
• 20
  Looking for a New Mama
  3:22
• 21
  What’s It?
  3:12
• 22
  My Good Gal’s Gone
  2:51
• 23
  My Good Gal’s Gone
  2:48
• 24
  Southern Cannonball
  2:34
• CD 5
• 1
  Roll Along Kentucky Moon
  3:27
• 2
  Roll Along Kentucky Moon
  3:26
• 3
  Hobo’s Meditation
  3:09
• 4
  Hobo’s Meditation
  3:10
• 5
  My Time Ain’t Long
  3:23
• 6
  Ninety Nine Year Blues
  3:15
• 7
  Mississippi Moon
  3:22
• 8
  Mississippi Moon
  3:41
• 9
  Down the Old Road to Home
  3:18
• 10
  Blue Yodel #10
  2:52
• 11
  Home Call
  2:45
• 12
  Mother, the Queen of My Heart
  3:22
• 13
  Rock All Our Babies to Sleep
  3:22
• 14
  Whippin’ That Old T.B.
  3:07
• 15
  Whippin’ That Old T.B.
  3:10
• 16
  No Hard Times
  3:10
• 17
  No Hard Times
  3:20
• 18
  Long Tall Mama Blues
  3:26
• 19
  Peach Pickin’ Time Down in Georgia
  2:52
• 20
  Gambling Bar Room Blues
  3:26
• 21
  I’ve Only Loved Three Women
  3:10
• 22
  In the Hills of Tennessee
  3:05
• 23
  Prairie Lullaby
  3:16
• 24
  Miss the Mississippi and You
  2:54
• CD 6
• 1
  Sweet Mama, Hurry Home
  2:47
• 2
  Blue Yodel #12
  3:23
• 3
  Dreaming With Tears in My Eyes
  3:00
• 4
  The Cowhand’s Last Ride
  3:03
  1.0 ★
• 5
  I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now
  3:05
• 6
  Dreaming With Tears in My Eyes
  2:53
• 7
  Yodeling My Way Back Home
  2:37
• 8
  Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel
  3:18
• 9
  The Yodeling Ranger
  2:32
• 10
  Old Pal of My Heart
  3:01
• 11
  Old Love Letters
  3:09
• 12
  Mississippi Delta Blues
  3:28
• 13
  Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line
  2:58
• 14
  Years Ago
  2:22
• 15
  The Singing Brakeman
  9:24
• 16
  The Pullman Porter
  3:53
• 17
  In the Jailhouse Now #2

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:55
• 18
  Mule Skinner Blues

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:49
• 19
  Peach Pickin’ Time Down in Georgia

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:51
• 20
  Mother, the Queen of My Heart

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  3:08
• 21
  Never No Mo’ Blues

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:48
• 22
  Blue Yodel #1

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:40
• 23
  Daddy and Home

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:35
• 24
  Memphis Yodel

  Jimmie Rodgers, Rainbow Ranch Boys
  2:33

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Release credits

• A.P. Carter
  spoken vocals [16]
• Alvin Alley
  violin [6-7]
• Bill Boyd
  guitar [1-4]
• Billy Burkes
  guitar [3.1-5, 3.7, 3.9-12, 2.10-13, 2.18, 2.26, 5.6], steel guitar [5, 7]
• Bob Sawyer
  piano [13, 22]
• Bob Sawyer's Jazz Band
  performer [13], performing orchestra [22]
• C.L. Hutchison
  cornet [1-4]
• Cal Smith
  guitar [22-23]
• Charles Kama
  steel guitar [4, 6-9]
• Charlie Burkes
  ukulele [5]
• Chet Atkins
  guitar [17-24]
• Clayton McMichen
  fiddle [12-15, 19-21]
• Cliff Carlisle
  steel guitar [17, 19-20]
• Clifford Gibson
  guitar [12]
• Clifford Hayes
  violin [22-23]
• Dean Bryan
  guitar [1-4]
• Dick Bunyard
  steel guitar [1-4]
• Earl McDonald
  jug [22-23]
• Ellsworth T. Cozzens
  banjo [11], mandolin [7], steel guitar [7-8, 10, 12], ukulele [9]
• Ernie Newton
  double bass [17-24]
• Fred Koone
  double bass [1-7], guitar [4, 8-9]
• Freddy Smith
  guitar [22-23]
• George Allen
  clarinet [22-23]
• George MacMillan
  double bass [1-4]
• James Rikard
  clarinet [1-4]
• Jimmie Rodgers
  arranger [13], guitar [1.1-6, 1.9-23, 5.4, 5.8-11, 5.16-18, 4.1, 4.4, 4.12-14, 4.16, 4.24, 3.4-7, 3.16, 3.23-24, 2.6-9, 2.14-17, 2.19-25, 6.2-10, 6.14], spoken vocals [16], tenor vocals [1-2], ukulele [1.7, 4.19-20], vocal [2.1-26, 3.1-7, 3.9-24, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-12, 4.12-24, 1.3-23, 5.1-4, 5.4-24, 6.1-14, 6.17-24]
• Joe Kaipo
  steel guitar [10-13, 16-18, 23]
• John Cali
  banjo [12], guitar [13], steel guitar [11]
• John Westbrook
  steel guitar [1-4]
• Joseph Talbot III
  steel guitar [17-24]
• Julian R. Ninde
  guitar [7-8, 10]
• L.D. Dyke
  musical saw [16]
• Lani McIntire
  guitar [14-15, 17-21]
• Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  performer [14-15, 17, 19-21]
• Leonard Joy
  conductor [5-6]
• Lil Hardin Armstrong
  piano [2]
• Louis Armstrong
  trumpet [2]
• M.T. Salazar
  guitar [6-9]
• Mike Cordova
  double bass [6-9]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  guitar [10-11], spoken vocals [16]
• Oddie McWinders
  banjo [12-15, 18-21]
• Ralph Peer
  producer [1-2]
• Red Young
  mandolin [1-4]
• Robert MacGimsey
  whistling [11]
• Ruth Ann Moore
  piano [18, 21]
• Sara Carter
  spoken vocals [16], vocal [10-11, 16]
• Shelley Lee Alley
  violin [6-7]
• Slim Bryant
  guitar [5.12-17, 5.19-24, 6.1]
• The Louisville Jug Band
  performer [22-23]
• The Rainbow Ranch Boys
  additional [17-24]
• Tommy Vaden
  fiddle [17-24]
• Tony Colicchio
  guitar [11-13]
• Weldon Burkes
  guitar [5-7], ukulele [10-12, 18]
• Wilbur Ball
  guitar [17, 19-20]
• [unknown]
  banjo [13, 22], clarinet [2.5-6, 3.13, 3.22, 5.22-24, 6.1], cornet [3.13, 3.22, 2.5-6], double bass [14-15, 17, 19-21], drums (drum set) [5-6], piano [2.5-6, 6.1, 5.22-24], steel guitar [14-15, 17, 19-21], tuba [3.13, 3.22, 2.5-6], ukulele [14-15, 17, 19-21], violin [5.22-24, 2.5-6, 6.1]
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Issues

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  T
  The Singing Brakeman

  6x CD
  1992
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  The Complete RCA Victor Recordings

  2x Digital Media
  17 May 2019
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  The Complete RCA Victor Recordings

  6x Digital Media
  17 May 2019