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
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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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