RAILROAD BOOMER

Created on 11/03/2006
Latest update on 12/04/2024

Artist: Bud & Joe Billings
Author: Carson Robison
Label: Victor
Year: 1929

Alias Frank Luther & Carson Robison.

Covers:

1929:

Gene Autry

1930:

Moonshine Kate [Fiddlin' John Carson's daughter as The Poor Girl Story]

1931:

Goebel Reeves [as The Railroad Bum]

1939:

Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys

1941:

Riley Puckett [The Skillet Lickers' blind singer-guitarist; yodeled three years before Jimmie Rodgers]

1952:

Cisco Houston [as The Rambler]

1953:

Tex Morton

1972:

Ry Cooder [as Boomer's Story]

2004:

North Mississippi Allstars [idem; vocal: Chris Robinson]

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