One morning I awoke to a travellin’ Jones. I hopped a blue train south from the Great Lakes – down through the coal-mining hills of Pennsylvania, over the Virginia mountains and into Tennessee. I caught a connection to the Orange Blossom Special, and just kept heading south. In the morning I found myself coasting along the French Broad River, passing the rusty cages and crumbling smokestacks of industry long since gone. When the train finally came to rest, I took to the streets, following the river until I found this graffiti on the edge of downtown Asheville, North Carolina, just north of the interstate 240 expressway. I never did catch up with Johnny’s posse, but this mural inspired me to put together this career-spanning collection of the man in black.
- I Walk the Line
- Ring of Fire
- Orange Blossom Special
- It Ain’t Me Babe
- The City of New Orleans
- Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Get Rhythm
- Bonanza
- Blue Train
- So Doggone Lonesome
- Hey Porter
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Time of the Preacher
- Rowboat
- Thirteen
- Rusty Cage
- Country Boy
- The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea
- Redemption
- I Never Picked Cotton
- In My Life
- Hurt
- Personal Jesus
- Further on up the Road
- If You Could Read My Mind
- God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Joe has been collecting records and compact discs for more than 30 years and has selections in almost every genre imaginable. Stay tuned