Trains! Three covers of a song! Three covers of a song about trains!
1. Freight Train by Laura Veirs
It's a little slow. It's a little long afternoon. Her voice is a lot pretty.
2. Freight Train by Simone White
Off-kilter timing. Two guitars. Pleasantly throaty voice.
3. Freight Train by Le Volume Courbe
A washboard. A harmonica. A banjo. A lo-fi voice that sings "fweight twain." A low percussive backbeat that sounds like the palm of a large hand hitting the exposed, overhead ducts while this song is being jangled out in the basement of a roarin' backwoods house party.
Listen to Elizabeth Cotten's warbling, hillbilly original here.
Which version do you like the best? Or do you not like any of them?
Thanks for stopping by,
Alie
P.S. Download Train of Thought by Mother Mother because it's so obviously great.
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