Meade "Lux" Lewis cut "Honky Tonk Train Blues" in 1927 as an unknown Chicago cab driver, an obsessive, train-whistle-mimicking boogie-woogie showpiece that went largely unnoticed until producer John Hammond tracked him down a decade later. Reissued in 1936 and showcased at Hammond's landmark 1938 "From Spirituals to Swing" concert alongside fellow pianists Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, it helped ignite a national boogie-woogie craze that carried eight-to-the-bar piano out of rent parties and onto jukeboxes across the country.

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1927

Honky Tonk Train BluesMeade Lux Lewis