Trains and Boats and Planes (EP)

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Trains and Boats and Planes
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ReleasedApril 15, 2008
Recorded2007
StudioThe Tape Kitchen, Brooklyn
Genre Country music
Length34:30
Label Diesel Only
Producer Laura Cantrell, Mark Spencer
Laura Cantrell chronology
Humming by the Flowered Vine
(2005)
Trains and Boats and Planes
(2008)
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music
(2011)

Trains and Boats and Planes is an EP released on Diesel Only Records by Laura Cantrell on April 15, 2008. It is a concept EP centered on the theme of traveling, as exemplified by the title track (a cover of the song of the same name by Burt Bacharach and Hal David). [1] In total, six songs (out of nine) on this EP are covers, including the title track. [2]

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Blurt (mixed) [3]
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Track listing

  1. "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:14
  2. "Train of Life" (Robert S. Riley, Roger Miller) – 2:49
  3. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 6:25
  4. "Howard Hughes Blues" (John Hartford) – 3:37
  5. "Love Vigilantes" (Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris) – 4:18
  6. "Silver Wings" – 4:22
  7. "Roll Truck Roll" (Roy Pennington) – 2:38
  8. "Big Wheel" (Laura Cantrell) – 2:30
  9. "Yonder Comes a Freight Train" (Jay Sherman-Godfrey, Jeremy Tepper) – 3:21

References

  1. Henderson, Stuart (May 20, 2008). "Trains and Boats and Covers and Toddlers: An Interview With Laura Cantrell". PopMatters . Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  2. Lewis, Catherine P. (August 8, 2008). "Laura Cantrell "Trains and Boats and Planes" Diesel Only". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  3. "Trains and Boats and Planes". Blurt . December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  4. Metivier, Michael (May 26, 2008). "Trains and Boats and Planes Review". PopMatters. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  5. Burr, Mike (May 8, 2008). "Trains and Boats and Planes Review". Prefix. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  6. "Robert Christgau: CG: laura cantrell". Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved January 17, 2015.