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Terry Allen — New Delhi Freight Train
Album: The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's greatest missed hits)
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Released: 1976
Length: 6:19
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Some people think that I must be crazy
But my real name is just Jesse James
An I left them half-crocked, hard-knocks of black rock county
Just to ride on that New Delhi Train
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my love behind
Yeah I left my love behind
Yeah I'm just a country boy without angels
ahhh just a country boy without gold
An I been to silver cities load of rainbows
Where I pillaged and I killed and I stole
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my life behind
Yeah I left my life behind
Then I killed a man named smilin Jordan (Jeer-dun)
Yeah I killed him with one of my guns
And I knew that I had did what I had not ought to
But I welcomed the run from what I'd done
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Ridin down that New Delhi Line
Ridin on that New Delhi Freight Train
Well I left my guns behind
Yeah I left my guns behind
(repeat)
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wtf?

The only really good part of this song is the slide guitar.  But it's not enough to save it.
If this was one of his "missed" hits, I don't think I'd want to hear what one of his real hits was.  Sorry.


Will it please end?
I think that will pretty much do me for the rest of my life.  Next.  
scraig wrote:
That song made me want to put a shotgun in my mouth.
Silly wabbit!

Someone else puts the shotgun in your mouth.



That song made me want to put a shotgun in my mouth.
j7 wrote:
minus 1, and the guy looks like a total tool.
Fascinating. Mind sharing your criteria? Race? Age? Proximity to taxidermy? Always looking to learn something!

Some uninteresting facts about this "total tool":
Trained as an architect, he received a B.F.A. from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His art has been supported by three NEA grants and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His work Trees (the music, literary and third trees) is installed on the campus of the University of California San Diego as part of the Stuart Collection. His artwork has been featured at the L.A. Louver art gallery in Venice, California.Terry Allen is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA. His works are represented in the collections of many international museums including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, l'Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon, France, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Terry Allen recorded eight albums during the years 1979 to 2004 and collaborated with David Byrne on the soundtrack for Byrne's movie True Stories. Allen's music is far from traditional. A quote attributed to Allen states: "People tell me it's country music, and I ask, 'Which country?'" Allmusic.com calls his 1979 release, Lubbock (On Everything), "one of the finest country albums of all time" and a progenitor of the alt-country movement.



Lowell, is that you?


Interesting mixture of old-style C&W songwriting and sitar work. Not a big fav to me, but it did catch my ear.

Wow, made me look!
LOVED THIS BILL! It's always nice to throw a little quirk into the mix.Thanks.
Musically, this probably fell out the business end of a caboose.

minus 1, and the guy looks like a total tool.
1
3 for the song, 10 for the album cover.
Has very similar chord progressions as the song 1951 Vincent, which is a good thing!{#Clap}
LOL...{#Exclaim}
*sigh*
Pretty much hated the song, but have to say that I'm loving the album cover and now feeling bad about my rating!

He looks like he woke up planning to go to a Lebowski-fest but decided to just stay in and get wasted instead.

Righteous. Dude.
I like the Little Feat version, this one is weird, in a 'sorta ok' way.
Superb English grammar, thar boy!   Great stuff.
Can I have what he's drinking?
This is weird.
 jagdriver wrote:
Meh

And WHO chose that cover shot?????
 
LMAO probably Terry, if anybody does things his way it would be Terry Allen. He is a artist of many talents. I was lucky enuff to stumble on his first work Juarez which may be my favorite to this day but all of his music is needless to say damn interesting.Him and The Panhandle Mystery Band have a bunch of stuff to sample. His art is in high demand and he and his wife wrote several plays. Only on RP would ya hear Terry Allen and a couple of his friends Joe Ely and Robert Earl Keen, who was a roomate of Lyle Lovett at one time TY again Bill

Meh

And WHO chose that cover shot?????
I like a lot of Terry's stuff, but "Give Me a Ride to Heaven" is my favorite. {#Cowboy}
Not quite like Little Feat but not bad non the less. For what it's worth, T.A. does two different versions of this song.
Worst album cover photo ever?
Good Lord, this is the crappiest piece of noise I've heard here in a while.  'Course there was a buttload of songs throughout the day that really (uncharacteristically) sukcked, too.  Must be mercy killing day or sumthin.
New jelly freight train?  I like it!
New to me. It's a toe tapper so I'm happy with it. Thanks.
"Tickets please! Tickets please!" "What the F***!!!"
driver8 wrote:
Oh my LORD!
OK BIll. You've got 59 songs with Train in the title. From Phish to Marley. You like playing with your train set, or something?
radiohead sux
well that was fun...and me thinks the album cover is hilarious !
are we "going somewhere" with this set? I've got to catch the 5:15!!!!
alfa3 wrote:
Interesting, But I have to say I prefer Little Feat, for that matter lots more by Little Feat would be great!
Here, here...
WOW! This actually sucks worse than one of his other 'Greatest Missed Hits'-----> "Big 'Ol White Boys"......imagine that! = 1....enjoy that rise-N-shine cup of Jack-N-Coke incognito while hugging your stuffed coyote friend there Terry.....
That's funny. And pretty good musically. Album cover & title bumps it up a notch. "The silent majority" ... is the dead.
I like this, but I'd prefer Little Feat's original.
Now That... is funny!
weird album cover, is he a taxidermist too?
As this began, I thought it was a cover of a great Feat\'s tune. Based on other comments here, I found some additional info. on Terry Allen. Thanks for the exposure and the horizon expanding song.
Interesting, But I have to say I prefer Little Feat, for that matter lots more by Little Feat would be great!
Well, I think it\'s a decent cover, almost as good as the original. :roll: