Mystery Train, by Elvis Presley.
It’s July Fourth, and what’s more American than Elvis stealing a song from a black man, goofing around dropping it as a b-side on a silly ballad, and having it make lots of “best songs of the century” long lists, 50 years later.
This song is fun, though, and 1956 seems like a long time ago, so we’ll let it ride.
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Recorded in a super cute Airbnb’d house in Lewisburg, WV, and inspired by checking out a waterfall and hike near some railroad tracks today, but also, once you’re invested in train songs, best to keep the streak alive. Gotta love songs that count the number of cars on the train — feels like maybe I need to do Johnny Cash tomorrow?
Also: Uploading 300MB+ videos from the road is… interesting… Last night’s was from my phone on burrito spot wifi. Today, the 2MB up internet is choking hard when I try to upload to Media Library directly, but uploading to Google Drive from my phone seemed to work OK, though I couldn’t find a way to embed that, and now I’m uploading it from my phone to YouTube, so that’s why there’s a YouTube embed this time around, which I’ve really actively been avoiding. Because YouTube. :shrug: