The Trains are Gone

\nI wrote this song about– I guess it’s about change. I was kind of researching some things: the history of North American rail lines, particularly the CPR, which is Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Union Pacific, here in the States. And I was also researching some stuff about the history of cattle ranches across the Southwest, and across the Northwest, some stuff about John Chisholm and the work he did with cattle barons and stuff like that.\n\nAnd I wrote this little thing. It’s kinda got a, like, a shitty Mississippi John Hurt feel to it, if Mississippi John Hurt wasn’t a very good guitar player.\n\n\n–Colter Wall, introducing this song at Folk Alliance 2018.