"There is sort of this long, intertwined history between the blues and trains," said Drozdowski, who went on to illustrate how this most gritty of genres and the earliest means of mass land transportation grew together from Chicago down through the Mississippi Delta. "(Musicians) like Robert JohnsonВ… would ride to the Delta on steel bracings underneath boxcars," regaled Drozdowski. "And lots of guys played live on trains.
Oh, and (musician) Son House had a job as a train conductor on the New York Central railroad." Drozdowski tells these unconnected, random little tidbits of Americana tales with an amazement that could make one believe Drozdowski is learning these things for the first time himself. And he plans on educating riders with a few brief history lessons В– it is a museum, after all В– but mostly the show will be he and his band mate rumbling through original and classic material, only to switch cars periodically with the Sawtelles.
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