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Anna Lynch, 2013
Written by Anna Lynch?
This is a stately country-folk song narrated by a young man who feels the pull of the railroad, tiring of the coal mines and farmland. While just a teen, he jumps a car, but runs into a man who's been defeated by the rail life. "There's more than broken bodies on this side of the tracks / Dreams come here and they never come back." Lynch, who has lived in California, Alaska, and North Carolina, channels the wide geography of Americana into her writing. The arrangement is spare but confident: brushed percussion, bluegrass-style picking, and a steady vocal that feels both tender and resigned as it carries the emotional heft of folk tradition.
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