All Aboard! (John Denver album)
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All Aboard! | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 26, 1997[1] | |||
Genre | Folk, children's music | |||
Length | 38:14 | |||
Label | Sony | |||
Producer | Roger Nichols | |||
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AllMusic | [2] |
All Aboard! is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in August 1997. Denver died in a plane crash two months after its release.
Style
[edit]The album consists of old fashioned swing, big band, folk, bluegrass and gospel styles of music woven into a theme of railroad songs.[3]
Accolades
[edit]All Aboard! won a posthumous Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.[4]
Track listing
[edit]- "Jenny Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill)[5]
- "Freight Train Boogie/Choo Choo Ch'boogie" (medley) (Ken Griffin, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milton Gabler)
- "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb)
- "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers)
- "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional)
- "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren)
- "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen)
- "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Bruce Phillips)
- "The Little Engine That Could" (William May, Warren Foster)
- "Last Train Done Gone Down" (Peter Rowan)
- "Last Hobo" (George Allen)
- "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield)
- "Lining Track" (With Waylon Jennings) (Lead Belly)
- "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman)
- "Jessie Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill, John Denver)[6]