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Elizabeth Cotten " Freight Train " is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle [ 1 ] period of the 1950s and 1960s.
The album included her signature recording "Freight Train", a song she wrote in her early teens. [7] In 1984, her live album Elizabeth Cotten Live!, won her a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, at the age of 90. [8] That same year, Cotten was recognized as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the ...
The album is also known as Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes and was originally released as Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs and Tunes. [3] [4] It is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic "Freight Train." The album cover was designed by Ronald Clyne. [4]
The song "Freight Train", sung by Nancy Whiskey with the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, appears in full in the Bermondsey Town Hall concert sequence at the end of the 1957 film The Tommy Steele Story. [6] Also, in 2023, "Freight Train", sung by Whiskey, was featured in Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. [7]
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
In late 1956, whilst recording the song "Freight Train" – written by folk blues singer Elizabeth Cotten [3] – for Oriole Records, studio owner Bill Varley suggested they should add a female singer. [4] As a result, folk singer Nancy Whiskey was invited to join the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, and they re-recorded the song with her vocals. [3]
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Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.