

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5BuYf8q4o So, talking of southern rock, I presume you all know the story behind "Sweet Home Alabama"...


Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWoe7QOSxI Another Manchester gig that I was persuaded to go to "blind" as it were (ie I had never even...


Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5HErVE9oI I meant to do a series of tracks that cite American towns, but I realise now that the reason...


The Memphis Train - Rufus Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYlSisv-VRU There was a short time, in the mid sixties, when Stax studios were churning out classic after...


Ride Your Pony - Lee Dorsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78AZ5zntGg ".....way out west where the grass is green California, you know what I mean New York City...


Cante - Tekameli featuring R.Can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2SBQnNQdQ Eight years ago I saw Tekameli in an impromptu performance on the beach at Collioure, between...


The Train from Kansas City - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0aRVlWEuo So this time we're waiting for a train FROM Kansas - or at least our fiance is, and you see...


Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZSMUJypqw While we're calling off the train stops across America, we could do worse the pause at Kansas...


Night Train - James Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeh40tamYc Great though Harry Watt and Basil Wright's 1936 film "Night Mail" is with its famous finale...


The Walk - Jimmy McCracklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krn4HEA4iV8 I would catch a bus from Upper Street down to King's Cross and then walk up Midland Road...

