Great Music Monday-City of New Orleans

Sorry for the light posting. I was having internet problems last week, and was at a rendezvous over the weekend.

Anyway, on to the music.

This week's selection of Great Music is a piece composed by the late, great, Steve Goodman, who also composed a couple other great songs about my favorite baseball team, including "Go, Cubs, Go" and "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request". Goodman also wrote, with John Prine, the David Allen Coe song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name."

But the song chosen for this weeks Great Music is "City of New Orleans." Arlo Guthrie made it famous, but countless others have covered the song. Willie Nelson got Goodman a posthumous Grammy award for the song. The song takes you on a trip from Chicago to New Orleans riding the rails on "their father's magic carpet made of steel."

The video is from a live concert of the super-group The Highwayman, which includes Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings.

So All Aboard for a "Southbound Odyssey."





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