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 and/or music:
“Poor Casey Jones he was all right,
He stuck by his duty both day an’ night,”
—Unknown. Casey Jones. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)