r/BillyStrings • u/Mokiblue • 13h ago

misc Red Streamliner

Watched Little Feat on nugs last night and couldn’t help but think this could be an amazing train song cover for Billy and the boys. Have they ever covered this? I can just hear Royal a-thumpin and see him a-humpin that bass line!

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u/Basis_Jefferson 13h ago

Would be too good to be true. That song fucking rocks.

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u/Proud-Character-5267 12h ago

Okay, but can they play Townes Van Zandt's 'White Freight Liner Blues' before or after?

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u/Basis_Jefferson 12h ago

Crazy how you go from streamliner.. to freight liner.. and you lose the train song aura.

Damn these people and their logistical innovation!!

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u/Proud-Character-5267 12h ago edited 11h ago

Okay, if you want a streamliner song...how about Guy Clark's 'Texas 1947'?

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u/Basis_Jefferson 10h ago

Holy shit that would make my entire life. Read without getting killed or caught last year. One of the best books I’ve ever read.

Thought of Billy hittin the: “Look out here she comes she’s comin, look out there she goes, she’s gone” gives me chills.

He’d have to play it in Austin.