Sunday, May 3, 2026

Mississippi Train - Fred Neil

Mississippi Train - Fred Neil
2:15
Bleeker & McDougal, 1965
Written by Fred Neil

Neil is best known as the writer of "Everybody's Talkin," made famous by Harry Nilsson, but he has some serious folk-blues chops.  This song starts with a Beatles-like harmonica into (by John Sebastian!), then moves into a shuffling blues with electric guitar.  Neil's low register makes the song seem straight out of the Delta swamp (deliberately: "She's going to the bayou / The bayou where the river flows"), when really he was a talented white guy from Cleveland.

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Mississippi Train - Fred Neil

Mississippi Train - Fred Neil 2:15 Bleeker & McDougal , 1965 Written by Fred Neil Neil is best known as the writer of "Everybody...