AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (recording, Grayson & Whitter, as "Train 45")
RECORDINGS:
Arizona Smoke Revue, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Air Mail Bluegrass,
Playasound; American Roots Music: Bluegrass, St. Clair; American
Roots Songbook, St. Clair; Americana: The Genuine Original, St.
Clair)
Emry Arthur, "Reuben Oh Reuben" (Paramount 3295, c. 1931; CD -
Before the Blues)
Blue Mountain Boys, "Reuben" (LP - 37th Annual Old-Time Fiddlers
Convention, Folkways, FA 2434, 1962)
Dock Boggs, "Reuben's Train" (CD - His Folkways Years,
Smithsonian/Folkways)
Brickman, Weissberg & Company, "Reuben's Train" (LP - New Dimensions
in Banjo And Bluegrass; Elektra EKS 7238, 1963)
John Burke, "Old Ruben" (LP - Fancy Pickin' and Plain Singing,
Kicking Mule 202)
Carolina Ramblers String Band, "Ruben's Train" (Banner 33085/Romeo
5345, 1934; Melotone M-13947, c. 1935)
Cockerham, Jarrell, and Jenkins (LP - Down to the Cider Mill, County
713 1968)
Bill Cornett ,"Old Reuben" (CD - Mountain Music of Kentucky,
Smithsonian/Folkways)
Elizabeth Cotten, "Ruben" (CD - Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian/Folkways)
The Dillards, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Greatest Stars of Folk Music,
Legacy; American Folk Anthology, Vol. 1, Varese; Back Porck
Bluegrass, WEA International)
Wayne Erbsen, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Railroadin' Classics, Native
Ground Music)
Raymond Fairchild, "Ruben" (CD - 31 Banjo Favorites #2, Rural Rhythm
Records)
Flat Ridge Boys, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Old Slewfoot, no label)
Flatt & Scruggs with Doc Watson, "Lonesome Ruben" (LP - Strictly
Instrumental, Columbia CS 9443, 1974)
Josh Graves, "Reuben's Train" (LP - Josh Graves, Vetco 3025, 1976)
Grayson & Whitter, "Train Forty-Five" (Victor 21189, 1928, rec.
1927); "Train No. 45" (Champion 5447, 1928)
Golden Delicious, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Live At Laurelthirst,
Cavity Search)
Ernest and Osey Helton, "Reuban" (LP - Library of Congress Banjo
Collection, Rounder 0237, 1988)
Holy Modal Rounders, "Reuben's Train" (CD- 1&2,
Fantasy/Landmark/Milestone)
Tommy Jarrell and Kyle Creed, "Reuben's Train" (LP - June Apple,
Mountain 302, 1972; Come and Go With Me, County 748, 1974)
Jim Lowman and Elaine Reichenbacher, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Jim &
Elaine - A Celebration, Lowman & Reichenbacher)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers [or Wade Mainer], "Riding on Train
Forty-Five" (Bluebird B-7298, 1937; Victor 27493, 1941)
Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers, "Old Reuben" (Bluebird
B-8990, 1941, And CD - coll. Train 45, Rounder)
William May "Ruben's Train" (CD - Folksongs and Ballads, Vol. 4,
Augusta Heritage)
Kenny Miller, "Ruben's Train" (LP - American Banjo, Folkways FA
2314, 1966)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Riding on That Train 45" (on NLCR06,
NLCRCD2)
George Pegram, "Reuben" (LP - George Pegram, Rounder 0001, 1970)
Dirk Powell, "Ruben's Train" (CD - If I Go Ten Thousand Miles,
Rounder)
Poplin Family, "Reuben" (CD - Poplin Family of Sumter, SC, Folkways)
Frank Profitt, "Reuben's Train" (C - Frank Profitt of Reese, NC,
Folk Legacy 001)
Ola Belle Reed, "Ruben's Train" (LP - 1st Annual Brandywine Mountain
Music Convention, Heritage 006, 1975)
Tony Rice, "Lonesome Ruben" (CD - Guitar, Rebel)
Art Rosenbaum, "Old Ruben" (LP - Five String Banjo, Kicking Mule
108, 1974)
Sidesaddle, "Ruben's Train" (CD - Daylight Train, Turquoise)
Martin Simpson, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Grinning In Your Face, Topic;
The Collection, Topic)
Wade Ward, "Old Reuben" (CD - Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward,
Folkways)
Doc Watson, "Reuben's Train" (CD - The Vanguard Years, Vanguard,
coll. North Carolina Banjo, Rounder) "Old Ruben" (CD- Original
Folkways Recordsings, Smithsonian/Folkways)
Doc & Merle Watson, "Reuben's Train" (CD - Home Sweet Home, Sugar
Hill Records; and Tradition, Rounder Records)
Notes: Ruben's Train; Train 45; Reuben Oh Reuben; Old Ruben