Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad

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Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad
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Studio album by
Riders in the Sky
Released2002
Genre Western
Riders in the Sky chronology
A Pair of Kings
(2002)		Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad
(2002)		 Monsters, Inc. Scream Factory Favorites
(2002)

Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad is a studio recording released by the Western band Riders in the Sky in 2002. [1] Created with the cooperation of the Tweetsie Railroad theme park in Blowing Rock, North Carolina [1] the album is a mixture of standard train songs (such as "I've Been Working On The Railroad" and "Casey Jones", and new compositions by the band exclusive to this album, including "Tweetsie Railroad Line", "Ghost Train" and "Tweetsie Junction". [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. Tweetsie Railroad Line (Douglas B. Green)
  2. New River Train (Carson Robison)
  3. Casey Jones (traditional, arr. Riders In The Sky)
  4. Great Northern (Douglas B. Green)
  5. Rock Island Line (traditional, arr. Riders In The Sky)
  6. I've Been Working on the Railroad (traditional, arr. Riders In The Sky)
  7. Here Comes the Santa Fe (Douglas B. Green)
  8. Railroad Corral (traditional, arr. Riders In The Sky)
  9. Tweetsie Junction (Joey Miskulin)
  10. Orange Blossom Special (Ervin T. Rouse)
  11. Ghost Train (Fred LaBour)
  12. Way Out There (Bob Nolan)
  13. Wabash Cannonball (traditional, arr. Riders In The Sky) [4] [3]

Personnel

Riders in the Sky

Additional Musicians

Notes

  1. 1 2 Petchenik, Becky (August 8, 2013). "Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock Presents Riders in the Sky, Grammy Award Winning Western Comedy Quartet". HCPress.com. High Country Press. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "About: Biography and Personnel". ridersinthesky.com. Riders in the Sky website. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad". ridersinthesky.com. Riders in the Sky website. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 Cusic, Dan (2015). It's the Cowboy Way!: The Amazing True Adventures of Riders In The Sky (Reprint ed.). University Press of Kentucky. p. 279. ISBN   9780813149585.


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