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In 1970, a Canadian concert promoter (Ken Walker), rented a Canadian National trainset and took a trainload of rocknroll muscians on a tour of Canada, it was called the Festival train (aka the Festival Express). Muscians included the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Delaney and Bonnie (Bramlett), Ian and Sylvia (Tyson, nee Fricke), Buddy Guy, Sha Na Na and more. In 2003 Ken Walker released a movie about the Festival train. Highlight for me is watching live performance of Janis signing Cry, Baby with the band that would be known as "Full Tilt Boogie" which is the band that played on Pearl. Then there's a jam session on the train between Bob Weir, Richard Manuel, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia to an old gospel tune. That's the atmosphere that the train had of a continuous party and muscian's jam session, among many the reputation of the train's partying and jam sessions is the legend of the train.

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anything that involves the Grateful Dead is of interest to me!!!!
I will have to look that up

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only took 2 1/2 yrs....
Here's a list of songs played:

Performed in the film
"Don't Ease Me In", Grateful Dead
"Slippin' and Slidin'", The Band
"Better Take Jesus' Hand" ("Jordan"), solo on the train by Jerry Garcia
"Comin' Home Baby", Mashmakhan
"Money (That's What I Want)", Buddy Guy Blues Band
"Lazy Day", The Flying Burrito Brothers
"The Weight", The Band
"Cry Baby", Janis Joplin
"Ain't No More Cane", jam session on train including Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir
"Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay", Sha Na Na
"New Speedway Boogie", Grateful Dead
"C.C. Rider", Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird (with Jerry Garcia and Delaney Bramlett)
"I Shall Be Released", The Band
"Tell Mama", Janis Joplin
[edit] Additional songs on DVD
"13 Questions", Seatrain
"Child's Song", Tom Rush
"Thirsty Boots", Eric Andersen
"As Years Go By", Mashmakhan
"Tears of Rage", Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird
"Hoochie Coochie Man", Buddy Guy Blues Band
"Hard to Handle", Grateful Dead
"Easy Wind", Grateful Dead
"Kozmic Blues", Janis Joplin
"Move Over", Janis Joplin
[edit] Other Festival Express performances
Filmed performances of "Long Black Veil" and "Rockin' Chair", from July 5, 1970 in Calgary appear on The Band's anthology album, A Musical History.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Express

Wow! That's outrageous! I want that entire soundtrack!