Johnny Cash & The Carter Sisters - Wabash Cannonball

Johnny Cash & The Carter Sisters - Wabash Cannonball
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[budw84]

miss you johnny cash, country music just isn't the same without you

[danlee1950]

Sorry, Pal....I've seen the Wabash Cannonball on it's last run. It stopped in Lafayette, Indiana. We were on our way to church, and managed to get across the tracks before it stopped and blocked them for a half hour or so....Bad news is, when it fired up again, it blew soot all over everything, including my wife's new outfit and my white dress shirt...This was in the spring of 1981 or 1982

[softie461]

Great song - love it - but the last verse is missing:

Here's to Daddy Claxton may his name forever stand - pity!

[bazthehandyman]

That's hilarious......blew soot all over my wifes new outfit and my white shirt !!.....dear God !!!

[vampirellella]

this kind of american creativity will come back,

[nicoleakalilqueenie]

....I agree! Anita had a PHENOMENAL VOICE!!

[nicoleakalilqueenie]

@Rabadamtimtimti...I saw Anita on an old youtube clip...I'm not sure what show it was, but it was one where all three sisters and mother Maybelle sung together, and Anita was quite a looker! A real perty lil thing indeed! But what really stood out to me, was her AMAZING VOICE! Now I'm here to tell you THAT WOMAN COULD SING!!

[baritonebynight]

I am a self admitted opera snob and the voices of most non classically trained singers makies me cringe, but one of the most beautiful natural voices of all times belonged to Anita Carter.

[Rabadamtimtimti]

Mmm, sweet Anita... <3

[PeterNGloor]

I think the song was first, and the Wabash named one of its trains after it.

[BenAliGtor]

Actually...there WAS such a train, but it post-dated the song. Technically, a "cannonball" was any freight that was given priority over lesser classified freights. The Wabash Railroad-which actually went no further south than St. Louis- eventually did give one of its passenger trains the name, "Wabash Cannonball"...but as I noted, it ran between Detroit and St. Louis. It ceased operation mid- 1960's.