Casey Jones References in Music
Casey Jones's fame can almost certainly be attributed to the traditional song, The Ballad of Casey Jones, recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Furry Lewis, The Grateful Dead, and Johnny Cash, among others.
Songs titled Casey Jones, usually about the crash or the driver, have been recorded by Vernon Dalhart (Edison Disc recorded June 16, 1925), This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Feverfew (Blueboy (band)), Tom Russell, Leonid Utyosov, Billy Murray, The New Christy Minstrels, and Skillet Lickers. A well-known song by The Grateful Dead was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1969.
Other songs about or related to Jones or the crash include:
- Southern Casey Jones – Jesse James
- To the Dogs or Whoever – Josh Ritter from The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
- Casey's Last Ride – Kris Kristofferson
- April the 14th (Part 1) and Ruination Day (Part 2) – Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator) — Casey Jones becomes a simile for another great collision, that of the RMS Titanic, on April 14, 1912.
- St Luke's Summer – Thea Gilmore from Rules For Jokers
- KC Jones – North Mississippi Allstars
- Ridin' With the Driver – Motörhead
- Casey Jones Was His Name – Hank Snow
- Freight Train Boogie – Marty Stuart
- What's Next to the Moon – AC/DC
- Casey Jones – Union Scab – Joe Hill
- Casey Jones - Gibson Bros. from Big Pine Boogie
- Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
- Casey Jones - Pete Seeger
- The Ballad of Casey Jones - Band of Annuals
- Grist for the Malady Mill - mewithoutYou
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Famous quotes containing the words casey jones, casey, jones and/or music:
“Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
Casey Jones, throttle in his hand,
Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.”
—Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 49–52)
“I pass the test that says a man who isn’t a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.”
—William Casey (1913–1987)
“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)