Steam Locomotives Sang the Blues & Inspired Early Boogie Woogie Musicians
In his book, "The Story of the Blues" in the chapter titled
“Cottonfield Hollers”
Historian
Paul Oliver
wrote:
“When the blues began, the countryside was quiet. Loudest of the sounds to break the stillness was the roar of a steam train as it traced its way through the lowlands, leaving a smudge of smoke against the blue sky. A brief moment of excitement as it passed, a shrill whistle, dipping and wailing like a blues and it would be gone.
It’s said that the engineers tuned their steam whistle ‘quills’ to play a blues but it probably just sounded like this to the field hands who knew the hour by the regular trains.”
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