Written by Steve Earle
A great addition to the mass of nostalgic train songs in Americana music, this tune has the narrator reminiscing about the titular Texas Eagle, an old train "on the Mopac line" that since has been shut down and sold to Mexico. His grandaddy, a railroad man, takes the narrator aboard for one last ride so he can experience it before it's gone forever. "Home in time for supper with a tale to tell / That night I dreamed I heard that lonesome whistle wail," Earle finishes up the story in his reedy growl. As one would expect from Earle, the bluegrass is historically accurate, with no glossy neo-touches or fusion detours; just straight, skilled picking. The playing is perfect but unpolished, loose, lived-in, and powered by dedication to the craft.
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