Captain Appleblossom

A great advertising wave of the new millennium was finding obscure songs from the past to promote new products or tie in with corporate identities. A worthy suggestion for the Amtrak corporation would be to seek out that great artist from the early days of musical Americana, Captain Appleblossom, that is if they can find out anything about him at all. He recorded during what was one of the heydays of the train industry, creating at least one number that seems like it would be eternally appropriate for railroad travel: "Timetable Blues." This track was released by Rounder on th...