Train Song
Context
Tom Waits song on Temptation (Alert / Metro Blue, 1995), a record produced by Craig Street with Aaron Davis on arrangements. Second track of the record, which has seventeen titles, all written by Waits.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).