All Aboard! (John Denver album)

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All Aboard!
John Denver All Aboard album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 26, 1997[1]
GenreFolk, children's music
Length38:14
LabelSony
ProducerRoger Nichols
John Denver chronology
Love Again
(1997)
All Aboard!
(1997)
Forever, John
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2.5/5 stars[2]

All Aboard! is the 27th and final studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in August 1997. Denver died in a plane crash two months after its release.

Style[]

The album consists of old fashioned swing, big band, folk, bluegrass and gospel styles of music woven into a theme of railroad songs.[3]

Accolades[]

All Aboard! won a posthumous Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.[4]

Track listing[]

  1. "Freight Train Boogie/Choo Choo Ch'boogie" (medley) (Ken Griffin, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milton Gabler)
  2. "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb)
  3. "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers)
  4. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional)
  5. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren)
  6. "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen)
  7. "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Bruce Phillips)
  8. "The Little Engine That Could" (William May, Warren Foster)
  9. "Last Train Done Gone Down" (Peter Rowan)
  10. "Last Hobo" (George Allen)
  11. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield)
  12. "Lining Track" (With Waylon Jennings) (Lead Belly)
  13. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman)
  14. "Jenny Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill)

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