All I can say is Boxcar Willie is one of the all time GREATEST!!!!!!!

Best version I've ever heard of this song

That Lonesome Whistle used to get me to running just to the Train that ran below the Hill I lived as a child growing up. Even as an adult I still love that sound. Boxcar Willie was the best at imitating that "Lonesome Whistle." God Bless You.

my dad loved boxcar---- so i too enjoy his music

@johnnynbk

6 жыл бұрын

family traditions

Riley is 100% spot on. 12 years old, spent every summer with grandparents,Pulaski, TN No tv, Friday night warm up, Saturday night Grand Old Opry on Clear Channel 650, 50,000 watts of the grandest performers of all time! YES Riley, you are spot on. Ed Allen

NEVER WILL REPLACE THESE OLD SINGERS > OR THE MUSIC

The King Of The Freight Train RIP Boxcar Willie.

B.W. - what a (country) voice - and what a wonderful singer of country ballads - R.I.P. - Willie !

We got to see Boxcar Willie at his theater in Branson, back in 1986. He was great and it was a great experience! He did his Willie Nelson spoof too, and it was hilarious!

I miss the sound of the train coming through the valley and watching the head light glide along the far side of the crick at night as I lay in bed . I wish I could go back but like they say , you can never go back home once you leave .

Boxcar Willie, un grand "chanteur à vapeur" de la musique country .

there will never be another boxcar willie hank sr johnny cash george jones. the list could go on and on. music with meaning i mean real meaning. thank you Lord

@stevenlantrip6214

6 жыл бұрын

Pam, you hit it dead center, I to could name a lot of them back then, and I love them all, two more I will add to your list is Jim Reeves, and great Whispering Bill Anderson

@deanliggett6985

6 жыл бұрын

Pam Cross your right my friend

For me the very best version of this song!!!

Salt of the earth "folks

Love this mans singing to bad he left us bet the Angles like him

Love Box Car Willie.......

How could anybody dislike this song ?

TALENT!

Good voice he is right there side by side with Hank

if you love this music hold onto it. this music is dead in the times we live in. i love this music. the outlaws were pure gold. all of the great music has already been made. if you were ever privileged to see one of the outlaws walk up to a hot mic with nothing more than a guitar and captivate an entire arena, consider yourself lucky. you'll not see this again in this lifetime.

@donmcleod5966

8 жыл бұрын

saw George Jones and also The Highwaymen. You are correct and I was doubly blessed.

@johncallahan8107

6 жыл бұрын

Quinn fat bottom girls

@shirleylarson4697

6 жыл бұрын

riley long p

@panchovilla3790

4 жыл бұрын

It is never dead as long as we listen to it, my great great nephew who is 8 loves this type of music.

@wayfordcox8081

4 жыл бұрын

I was fortunate enough to meet George Jones in person .

We were a little bit poor so we lived by "the tracks". The "whistle" was part of my growing up. I love the singers and songs about this kinda stuff...

@carolynjones6457

6 жыл бұрын

webspyder I lived above them, they are gone now and a Subdivision has taken their place. Now, ( Due to a Wildfire the last part of the Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Guage Railroad,) could be taken out of the County I live in, the Train is being blamed for for starting the Wildfire, despite the Owners taking every precaution to prevent it from happening. God Bless You.

@robinbrown3347

3 жыл бұрын

When I was really young the tracks were just across the field. I still remember the steam engines leaving town picking up speed spewing smoke and steam. At night we could see the fires in the bush from the hobos. In the daytime my 3 older brothers and I would visit them. They were polite and friendly. My mother never worried about us because we had a big dog.

@user-od5fh3gn4d

7 ай бұрын

There was a Conrail track in my back yard as a kid. It cut through the middle. Sometimes they'd just stall for days and we'd crawl under them to get to the other side of the yard. 🤫

Way too shoo the blues from the day, just take a toke and put this on, sing a song and feel fine, thanks Willie.

my grandpa and Grandma used to listen to boxcar Willie on heehew

Lov u paps . Uit het oog maar niet uit ons hart. San Roses.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

box is one of the best the love for his music will never die..

Great song!

ONE OF THE BEST

Beautiful music pity they don't write songs like this anymore.

Newcomers tell you all about mud on their tires , tailgates on their pickups , John Deere tractors , a bale of hay , anything to convince you that they are truly country , I'd say , B S. I first saw Boxcar on the Gong Show 40 + years ago , , he won , I knew there was something special about the man ,he was on his way

One of the Greats that's been forgotten ! Boxcar Willie voice had a unique sound pure country !

I was born in Harlan County Ky. Before I was in school I lived in a valley that had an elevated railroad along side a river. It was elevated 18 feet to kept it from flooding when we had a lot of rain, which drained from all of the valleys and hollows upstream from us. Our house was one of five about 2 feet above the river. But the coal train was much, much more important than us. We heard them day and night. I grew to love the lonesome sound of that whistle. Visiting relatives couldn't sleep without being awakened many times every night. When we moved away (before being washed away), I missed that whistle so much I couldn't sleep. Years later When I was in High school they started playing Lonesome Whistle on the radio, I told my mother the person who wrote that song sat on our front porch all night. That huge, ugly machine blocked my horizon and It's very, very ugly black smoke blocked out our world, If the wind was wrong. But my memory only wants to hear that sad soothing whistle. Thanks for letting me ramble, .

Very Nice , and Great Pic,s !!! --- :-))

thank you R I P

Directly from the heart.

I love this man's songs an I am only 30

@lewiswereb8994

6 жыл бұрын

You are one of the few with common sense and a good ear.

@steamfan4014

3 жыл бұрын

I'm only 17 and I love man's songs

Pap in heaven 31 jan 2012 kwam paps te overlijden. Sterke pappie. Maar nu met te engeltjes. Je dochter Sandra en je 2 klein zoons. Uit het oog maar niet uit het hart.❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️✨️❤️

I just love country music, all of my friends think I'm crazy

@lewiswereb8994

6 жыл бұрын

Get new friends. Yours are idiots.

@christopherjones8197

4 жыл бұрын

They don't know what real country music is

Thumbs up. Just great..

HE COULD REALLY SING THOSE TRAINS SONGS

boxcar willie u are a man with an angels voice

@marcieswadener6011

9 жыл бұрын

yes that is true i a

@carolvilleneuve401

6 жыл бұрын

yes best songs ever

hee eindelijk gevonden zo mooi

granted it's not Hank but it's followed word for word RIP Boxcar you are truely missed.

MY B DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you

Boxcar Willies wasn't with us long enough, not for my money!

@curtisneilson5829

7 жыл бұрын

CrampedGrampy the man was pure gold

@CrampedGrampy

7 жыл бұрын

With you on that, thank you for your comment. Box appeared in Norfolk NE, obviously many long years ago. I am so glad for the opportunity to see and hear him then. Further, he was photographed with my daughter at that time making my memory that much more pleasing. Be well.

@CrampedGrampy

7 жыл бұрын

BTW: How many folks know, or remember, Box was a veteran and high ranking officer in the USAF?

@curtisneilson5829

7 жыл бұрын

I knew he was in the Air Force

Yeah most of the great country singers are gone and like ol no show Jones asked who will fill there boots I don't know but I know that there's not many left

Riley Long, you are a wise man.

last one i rode . Santa fe' calif. cple yrs ago .. aint no hobo' s now . .. always hoppn trains..in boise idaho ..

@patriciajensen1541

6 жыл бұрын

the last Train driver had lot stories to tell' he lives in boise idaho .real nice olde timer . must be in his 90 now . . The Train is on Display. Olde TRAIN DEPOT'* BOISE IDAHO. NAME OF TRAIN... . is-->"BiG MiKE". IS A REALLY. BIGG SHINEY BLACK."

2024 written on the train.

A Hank Williams song that Willie sings great.

0:49 That's the locomotive I actually worked on!

My kind of music !!!

nice and sweet song

In the Alaska Fiddle scene.

I LIKE TRAINS.......

To all my INMA, ANEA and the Athabaskan Fiddlers! Lets bring this song back!

Gorge straight

Gold dust

emerson scott larimer 1870-1948

We were a tad hard up and lived in the basement (cellar) of grandad's house under the embankment of the Southern Railway Brighton to London Railway until I was five and my parents could afford a mortgage...my dad and uncle hand-built a couple of radiograms and this was the kind of music they listened to....

chasles a larimer 1911-2002

to the 32 I you who gave this a thumbs down shame on you

i love old train tuens

@ernestparker6792

6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Hank

D.C.

Is this man stall living

@brendaleegraham9845

6 жыл бұрын

Dakota Showalter unfortunately box is no longer with us

@allanhunter2328

6 жыл бұрын

Boxcar Willie is dead I believe more than a year ago not sure

need a girl crying

Dude wtf

Je préfère d'être mort à sa place.

L

I hate riing junk

my grandpa and Grandma used to listen to boxcar Willie on heehew

I love this man's songs an I am only 30

@EarthMistressTeyha-ms9lv

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

to the 32 I you who gave this a thumbs down shame on you

to the 32 I you who gave this a thumbs down shame on you

to the 32 I you who gave this a thumbs down shame on you