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Originally posted by BklynBlue
Aside from being a "train song", I don't think it really has that much in common with
The liner notes to the box set credit it to Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, but I don't think that's correct.
I'm not an expert on Crudup (or anything else, for that matter) but the only "train song" I know by him is "Mean Old 'Frisco Blues" -
There are thousands of train blues, and to me, it sounds like Jeremy did what many a bluesman did: take various images, lines, or even whole verses from disparate sources and combine in a new way and call it your own -
If anyone has an vinyl pressing of "Original Fleetwood Mac" I'd be curious if that was the composer credit on there too.
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I'm sure you're right about Otis Rush's "So Many Roads, So Many Trains". I think I'm just remembering that one line about "mean old fireman, cruel old engineer". I'm pretty sure I have the vinyl
Original Fleetwood Mac at home - I'll see if I can check the credit for that song later.