Hogan & Moss - Reuben's Train

This album was recorded in Nashville in August, 2013, with help from producers Jeff Goodwin and Suzzane Skinner. Byron House plays bass and Andy Leftwich is on fiddle and mandolin. About the songs on this album: Reuben's Train--a speedy, scorching arrangement of the old-time 'Five Hundred Miles.' In Dreams I Go Back Home--Hogan & Moss's signature song, written by Jon Hogan and dedicated to Maria Moss. Leaky Tent--Jon Hogan's minor-key commentary on the dystopia of the New South. Mill Room Blues--a 1932 Dixon Brothers tune about the North Carolina textile mills, originally titled 'Weave Room Blues.' The song references the experience of displaced mountain people forced by industrialization to work in the textile mills of North Carolina. Melody by Jon Hogan to traditional lyrics. Coo Coo--Jon Hogan's arrangement of an English folk song, after Clarence 'Tom' Ashley's version, recorded with Byrd Moore's Hotshots in 1929 in Johnson City, TN (Columbia #15489). Every Now and Then--a posthumous co-write with legendary songwriter Blaze Foley (1949-1989). In 2008 Marsha Weldon, sister of the late Blaze Foley and publisher of his catalogue, gave Jon Hogan a copy of a notebook of lyrics found in her brother's effects. The songs appeared to be unfinished; no one knows whether Foley had written music to the lyrics. Weldon asked Jon Hogan to complete some of the songs by writing music; Every Now and Then is one of the three he chose.