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500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money and too ashamed to return.
By her teens, West was singing at folk festivals, both locally and in neighboring states. In the mid-50s, she won a prize for ballad-singing in Nashville, TN. [5] Many of her songs, including the raw materials for "500 Miles", came from Lillie West, who passed on the songs she had learned as a child. [6]
500 Miles Away from Home is the debut studio album by American country artist Bobby Bare. It was released in December 1963 by RCA Victor and contained 12 tracks. RCA Victor had previously released a compilation album of Bare's songs.The album's title track was released as a single in 1963. The single reached the top ten on the American country ...
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a song written and performed by Scottish duo the Proclaimers, and first released in August 1988 by Chrysalis as the lead single from their second album, Sunshine on Leith (1988). The song reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart on its initial release and topped the charts of Australia, Iceland, and New Zealand.
As a trio, The Journeymen began performing together in Gerdes Folk City nightclub, and soon won a five-month residency there. [1] Their manager, Frank Werber, who also managed The Kingston Trio, won them a contract with Capitol Records, [2] and they soon recorded their first self-titled LP, comprising traditional songs and two written by ...
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.
500 Miles; A. A&W (song) Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway ... Jesse James (folk song) Jesus Christ the Apple Tree; Jimmy Crack Corn; Joan of Arc (Madonna song) Joe ...
Reviews from Credible Sources. The New York Times: A.O. Scott of The New York Times lauds Inside Llewyn Davis as a "minor masterpiece." He praises the Coen brothers' ability to craft a film that delves deep into the complexities of the human condition, while also paying homage to the folk music tradition of the era.