Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
from the Big Easy to the Big Apple
on the Amtrak Crescent

Mule Train Stops * Amtrak Crescent Links

Scott's Wired and Tired Web Log

The tour on the Amtrak Crescent was one for the books, and Jack Neely, one of Knoxville's finest writers and residents, has almost written a book on the leg of the tour he "embedded".

Here's a link to his story



A pre-tour note from Scott

     I often dream of trains. And now I'm going to tour on one.

     Don't ask me why--maybe it's because I was raised to make everything twice as hard as it needs to be or because if everything were easy-- EVERYBODY would do it.

     It will an interesting trip full of interesting characters through an interesting part of our country and in the end its still shameless self promotion, but a great idea nonetheless. I'm glad I thought it up. And I'm glad Amtrak was willing to help. We're going to document this train tour as best we can with what we have and hope you'll come out to be a part of it. And remember that trains are a way to get around and be with your travelling partners en route.

     I'm no political genius, but it s safe to say that oil ain't gonna get any cheaper. So flex your coping skills America, and rock n' roll like you invented it &

Mule Train Stops starting January 21, 2004

01/21 New Orleans, LA The Parish - HOB
01/22 Hattiesburg, MS Thirsty Hippo
01/23 Jackson, MS Hal & Mal's Club
01/24 Tuscaloosa, AL The Booth
01/28 Birmingham, AL Workplay Theater
01/29 Atlanta, GA Smith's Olde Bar
01/30 Greenville, SC The Handlebar
01/31 Charlotte, NC The Evening Muse
02/04 Charlottesville, Va Starr Hill
02/05 Union Station, Washington, DC @4:30
(yes the train station)
02/05 Arlington, VA Iota Café
02/06 Philadelphia,, PA NXNW
02/07 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
02/08 Baltimore, The Royal Baltimore
02/11 NYC, Tribeca Rock Club

Amtrak Crescent Links

Mule Train MMIV Web Log - Scott's wired and tired
ramblings from the Amtrak Crescent tour

The Amtrak Crescent - Fares, Timetables, Destinations

Scott Miller Lives His Song on the Amtrak Crescent,
Metro Pulse

Scott Miller has Career on Track, Next Tour by Train,
Charlotte Observer

"It takes a special talent to write a good train song
because so many have done it so well
(Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, et al).
'Amtrak Crescent' is a good train song."
Clink Magazine

"...the reflective 'Amtrak Crescent', sweetened
by Tim O'Brien's mandolin picking,
has Miller recalling the trains that
come and go in life."
ArtVoice

"...it's an allusion to another train song,
Orange Blossom Special. Actually, Orange Blossom Special
could be said to be the train song, performed by
many, but this time by Bill Monroe. One of Bill's
Bluegrass Boys shouts it out between lines.
'Where are you gettin' off this train?'
'Birmingham, Alabama!
There ain't no ham like the Birmingham!'"
Hickory Wind Oct, Dec, Jan

"If there has been better train song
than 'Amtrak Crescent' written in the
past few years, I haven't heard it."
RockZilla

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