Fifty shows! This is the special anniversary edition of American Highways. I’m pianist Guy Livingston and this show is a festive one, about trains, mostly American trains. Music of Steve Reich, Harry Partch, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, Glenn Miller, and Meade “Lux” Lewis.
Train Music! Union Pacific 1950s locomotive
AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #50: Train Music Playlist
Theme Music :
Steve Reich.
The Desert Music (1984)
First Movement (Fast).
Chorus of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas & William Carlos Williams.
Nonesuch Records 79101.
Count Basie
One O’Clock Jump
Count Basie
Welton KBOX3182C
Steve Reich
Different Trains
1. America, Before The War (8:59)
2. Europe, During The War (7:31)
3. After The War (10:27)
The London Steve Reich Ensemble, Vincent Corver, Kevin Griffiths
EMI Classics – 50999 0 87319 2 0
don’t bother trying to set your watch by Amtrak
Harry Warren (music) & Mack Gordon (lyrics)
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller
Welton KBOX3182C
Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, & Milt Gabler
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Welton KBOX3182C
Meade “Lux” Lewis
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Meade “Lux” Lewis
Milan Records
Harry Partch
Barstow: Eight Hitchhikers’ Inscription From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
Ben Johnston, voice; Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch 7559-79372-2 1
Billy Strayhorn, lyrics by Joya Sherrill
Take The “A” Train
Duke Ellington
Welton KBOX3182C
This photo doesn’t look posed at all.