Casey Jones (song)

Casey Jones (song)

Infobox Song
Name = Casey Jones


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Artist = Grateful Dead
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Album = Workingman's Dead
Published =
Released = June 14, 1970
track_no = 8
Recorded = Pacific High Recording Studio
San Francisco, California
Genre = Classic rock
Length = 4:24
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer = Jerry Garcia
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Bob Matthews
Betty Cantor
Grateful Dead
prev = "Easy Wind"
prev_no = 7
Misc =

"Casey Jones" is a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. The song first appeared on the Dead's 1970 album "Workingman's Dead". Subsequently it was included on a number of their live albums. [ [http://www.deaddisc.com/songs/Casey_Jones.htm "Casey Jones" on Deaddisc.com] ]

The Grateful Dead played "Casey Jones" in concert on a regular basis from June 1969 through October 1974. After that, they continued playing it live, but less often. In total they performed the song in concert more than 300 times. [Scott, John W; Dolgushkin, Mike; Nixon, Stu. "DeadBase XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists", 1999, DeadBase, ISBN 1-877657-22-0, p. 131, 159-160]

"Casey Jones" is about a railroad engineer whose train crashes. It was inspired by the story of an actual engineer named Casey Jones, whose exploits were also sung of in an earlier folk song called "The Ballad of Casey Jones".

"Casey Jones" has received significant airplay on progressive rock, album-oriented rock, and classic rock radio stations over the years, and so is one of the Dead's songs that is more recognizable by non-Deadheads. It includes the line, "Drivin' that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better watch your speed." [cite web |url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/kcj.html |title=The Annotated "Casey Jones" |accessmonthday=January 12 |accessyear=2008 |last=Dodd |first=David |date= |work=The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics |publisher=UCSC's Division of the Arts ]

The song was released as a downloadable track for the game "Rock Band" on March 4, 2008.

Cover Versions

*"Casey Jones" is performed by Warren Zevon and David Lindley on "", a 1991 album by various artists.
*The song is included in "", a bluegrass album of Grateful Dead songs.
*Another bluegrass version of the song appears on the 2008 album "Rex (Live at the Fillmore)" by Keller Williams, Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin. [ [http://news.jamradio.org/824-keller-williams-new-album-2008.php Keller Williams album for REX charity] , "news.jamradio.org", May 15, 2008, Retrieved May 7, 2008.]

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