All Aboard! (John Denver album) explained

All Aboard!
Type:	Studio
Artist:	John Denver
Cover:	John Denver All Aboard album cover.jpg
Released:	August 26, 1997^[1]
Genre:	Folk, children's music
Length:	38:14
Label:	Sony
Producer:	Roger Nichols
Prev Title:	Love Again
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	Forever, John
Next Year:	1998

All Aboard! is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in August 1997. Denver died in a plane crash two months after its release.

Style

The album consists of old fashioned swing, big band, folk, bluegrass and gospel styles of music woven into a theme of railroad songs.^[2]

Accolades

All Aboard! won a posthumous Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Jenny Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill)^[4]
2. "Freight Train Boogie/Choo Choo Ch'boogie" (medley) (Ken Griffin, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milton Gabler)
3. "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb)
4. "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers)
5. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional)
6. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren)
7. "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen)
8. "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Bruce Phillips)
9. "The Little Engine That Could" (William May, Warren Foster)
10. "Last Train Done Gone Down" (Peter Rowan)
11. "Last Hobo" (George Allen)
12. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield)
13. "Lining Track" (With Waylon Jennings) (Lead Belly)
14. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman)
15. "Jessie Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill, John Denver)^[5]

External links

• Homepage

Notes and References

1. https://www.amazon.com/All-Aboard-John-Denver/dp/B0000029ZZ Amazon.com
2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/824274762 WorldCat.org
3. https://www.grammymuseum.org/exhibits/johndenver Rhymes & Reasons: The Music of John Denver|GRAMMY Museum
4. Web site: All Aboard!.
5. Web site: All Aboard!.