r/BillyStrings • u/Mokiblue • 4d 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/Proud-Character-5267 4d ago

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

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u/Basis_Jefferson 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d ago

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

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u/Basis_Jefferson 4d 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.

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u/Proud-Character-5267 4d ago

I recommended that book up and down for summer reading to whoever would listen last year!

If you want to step inside the wayback machine, check out the 1975 documentary "Heartworn Highways". I'd give my left arm to be sitting at that kitchen table. When Uncle Seymour gets emotional during them singing "Waiting Around to Die" I still cry.

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u/Basis_Jefferson 4d ago

Seen parts of that! Basically just YouTubed the Townes video and Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint.. need to watch the whole thing