Freight Train is a very popular folk song that was originally written in the every early 1900’s. It was very possibly written before 1910. Written by Elizabeth Cotten as a teenager, but it wasn’t recorded for the first time until the mid 50’s. This a banjo arrangement that was inspired by the playing style of Eddie Adcock, who used his Merle Travis guitar finger picking style on the banjo. This isn’t exactly how Eddie would have played it probably, but after all, I’m not Eddie Adcock lol.
