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Paul McCartney Limited Edition Japan CDS Fourth Batch [SHM-CD Box Set] 2025 MPL Communications ——————————————————————— Track CD One: Paul is Live 01. Drive My Car 02. Let Me Roll It 03. Looking for Changes 04. Peace in the Neighbourhood 05. All My Loving 06. Robbie’s Bit (Thanks Chet) 07. Good Rockin’ Tonight 08. We Can Work It Out 09. Hope of Deliverance 10. Michelle 11. Biker Like an Icon 12. Here, There and Everywhere 13. My Love 14. Magical Mystery Tour 15. C’Mon People 16. Lady Madonna 17. Paperback Writer 18. Penny Lane 19. Live and Let Die 20. Kansas City 21. Welcome to Soundcheck 22. Hotel in Benidorm 23. I Wanna Be Your Man 24. A Fine Day

Tracks CD Two: Flaming Pie  01. The Song We Were Singing 02. The World Tonight 03. If You Wanna 04. Somedays 05. Young Boy 06. Calico Skies 07. Flaming Pie 08. Heaven on a Sunday 09. Used to Be Bad 10. Souvenir 11. Little Willow 12. Really Love You 13. Beautiful Night 14. Great Day 15. Looking for You

Tracks CD Three: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard 01. FIne Line 02. How Kind of You" 03. Jenny Wren 04. At the Mercy 05. Friends to Go 06. English Tea 07. Too Much Rain 08. A Certain Softness 09. Riding to Vanity Fair 10. Follow Me 11. Promise to You Girl 12. This Never Happened Before 13. Anyway 14. I’ve Only Got Two Hands

Tracks CD Four: New 01. Save Us 02. Alligator 03. On My Way to Work 04. Early Days 05. New 06. Vigilante Killer 07. Appreciate 08. Everybody out There 09. Hosanna 10. I Can Bet 11. Looking at Her 12. Road

Tracks CD Five: Amoeba Gig 01. Drive My Car 02. Only Mama Knows 03. Dance Tonight 04. C Moon 05. The Long and Winding Road 06. I’ll Follow the Sun 07. Calico Skies 08. That Was Me 09. Blackbird 10. Here Today 11. Back in the USSR 12. Nod Your Head 13. House of Wax 14. I’ve Got a Feeling 15. Matchbox 16. Get Back 17. Baby Face 18. Hey Jude 19. Let It Be 20. Lady Madonna 21. I Saw Her Standing There 22. Coming Up ———————————————————————

Album Review: Various Artists - Americana Railroad

All of the songs are about trains and several of them employ harmonica or horns to ape locomotive whistles. But that’s where the similarities end and the tracks diverge on Americana Railroad.

The album was originally a limited release Record Store Day special and is now out on digital platforms.

The brainchild of co-producers Carla Olson and Saul Davis, the 19-song, various artists’ compilation goes all the way back to Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train” by A.J. Haynes and travels as far forward as Dom Flemons’ original “Steel Pony Blues.”

Two versions of “Mystery Train,” the first by Rocky Burnett and Barry Goldberg, and the second by James Intveld and Goldberg, sum up the LP’s diversity, from fairly true to Elvis Presley’s famous take to a bluesy shuffle, respectively.

While there is no filler, the track-jumping can be districting as the music shifts from the hard country of Robert Rex Waller Jr. and Chip Kinman’s “The Conductor Wore Black” to the folk of John Fogerty and Mickey Raphael’s “City of New Orleans” to the hard rock of Gary Myrick’s “Train Kept A-Rollin’.”

But it’s worth the 75-minute journey because just when the Americana Railroad starts to grow tiresome, surprising gems like CSN’s “Marrakesh Express” (Dustbowl Revival) and Procol Harum’s “Whiskey Train” (Olson and Brian Ray) come in to earshot.

Grade card: Various Artists - Americana Railroad - B-

Episode 5 now streaming on YouTube!

Beatles, Chris Carter, November 22, 2020.  Download  

In-studio guest is Brian Ray.

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(Left to right) Rusty Anderson, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh and Brian Ray at the final show of his “Freshen Up” tour: Dodger Stadium; Los Angeles, CA (7-13-19).  @PaulMcCartney @thebeatles @brianrayguitar @rustyanderson1 @joewalsh