All Aboard! (John Denver album)

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All Aboard!
Sony
ProducerRoger Nichols
John Denver chronology
Love Again
(1997)
All Aboard!
(1997)
Forever, John
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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

All Aboard! won a posthumous Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Jenny Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill)[5]
  2. "Freight Train Boogie/Choo Choo Ch'boogie" (medley) (Ken Griffin, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milton Gabler)
  3. "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb)
  4. "Waiting for a Train" (
    Jimmie Rodgers
    )
  5. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional)
  6. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren)
  7. "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen)
  8. "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Bruce Phillips)
  9. "The Little Engine That Could" (William May, Warren Foster)
  10. "Last Train Done Gone Down" (Peter Rowan)
  11. "Last Hobo" (George Allen)
  12. "
    People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield
    )
  13. "Lining Track" (With Waylon Jennings) (Lead Belly)
  14. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman)
  15. "Jessie Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill, John Denver)[6]

References

  1. ^ Amazon.com
  2. AllMusic
  3. ^ WorldCat.org
  4. ^ Rhymes & Reasons: The Music of John Denver|GRAMMY Museum
  5. ^ "All Aboard!".
  6. ^ "All Aboard!".

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