Peace Train
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Sep 11, 2026
Brent BamburyHOST
But it got us thinking about the long history of musicians who changed their names mid-career.
Brent BamburyHOST
In 1977, people all over the world were singing along to hits like Wild World, Moonshadow and Peace Train, all by the artist they knew as Cat Stevens.
Brent BamburyHOST
Then, in a move that seemed shocking at the time, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam.
Brent BamburyHOST
He sold all of his guitars and stopped recording music.
Wesley StaceGUEST
Why don't you try something a bit more like that? And then I started thinking about the stuff that I really do like, like, you know, Nina Simone doing Just Like a Woman or...
Wesley StaceGUEST
Johnny Hammond doing Peace Train by Cat Stevens.
Wesley StaceGUEST
Obviously, it's an instrumental.
Wesley StaceGUEST
And Esther Phillips doing a Gilbert O'Sullivan song, you know, all that kind of stuff.
Wesley StaceGUEST
So once you get into one of those records, you can really start listening to all of them.
Wesley StaceGUEST
And as I'm listening to them, You hear somebody like Johnny Hammond doing Peace Train by Cat Stevens, or Esther Phillips singing a Gilbert O'Sullivan song, or Wes Montgomery doing, I don't know, Scarborough Fair.
Wesley StaceGUEST
And you just think, well, those are all singer-songwriter songs, and they sound really awesome done in this instrumental style.
Wesley StaceGUEST
Why can't I kind of start there? Like, my version doesn't have to be like that, and then somebody else could do that cover.
Gaston LacombeHOST
So we're going to start right away at the beginning of the podcast with you reading one of them so people can get an idea of what is it we're talking about.
Gaston LacombeHOST
So pick a poem and let's read it.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
Well, you know what? Dolly Parton just passed away.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
At the moment of recording this, literally just passed away.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
And I remembered that I do have a poem that invokes her.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
So I'll read that one.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
I'll start with that one.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
My blonde braids unfurled.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
I'll start with that one.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
Peace Train.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
I moved through the 20th century breezy, like a train off track, like a dress off the rack unspooled onto the carpet of Sears.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
The cashier at Tower frowned when I bought Britney Spears in 2001.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
I watched the marchers protest down Monument Avenue, my train off the track scuttling down a cliff.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
At some point, summer neared and I was silent with myself in a dark apartment and accepted an acceptance.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
I thought, full steam ahead, like Dolly on Cat Stevens' Peace Train.
Jeffrey BergGUEST
Aimless on 64 in the dark.
Ruth NowotniakHOST
Among her many memorable artistic collaborations was one with the black South African acapella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the mid-1990s.
Ruth NowotniakHOST
Together, they covered Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Cat Stevens' Peace Train, the latter of which she included in her 1996 album Memories.
Ruth NowotniakHOST
She later invited the group to perform at Dollywood.
Ruth NowotniakHOST
Sibuganesini Shabalala, a member of the group and the son of its founder, expressed his condolences to Parton's family.
Wesley StaceGUEST
I know it's great.
Wesley StaceGUEST
And you've also got on here, you know, Peace Train.
Wesley StaceGUEST
and uh wild horses and and i don't know how to love him from jesus christ superstar now that might seem like an album of you know could be an album of nightmare music nightmare music when i tell you that the band is billy cobb and ron carter airto eric gale george benson and grover washington jr arranged by bob james you know they were not in around on this record incredible right so Then you think, well, why not start with those arrangements of those songs? And you think how far away from the originals they are.
Wesley StaceGUEST
But then it gets to the point when you're listening to those, you'd rather listen to them than the originals because you know the originals so well.
Dolly PartonGUEST
But I had always loved him, and I've recorded songs of his before.
Dolly PartonGUEST
I did a song of his called Peace Train.
Dolly PartonGUEST
And he had, many years back, sent me a fax and an email saying how proud he was of that.
Dolly PartonGUEST
And I think he used the choir that I had used on his Peace Train on some things he did.
Dolly PartonGUEST
And then I wrote a song called Hello God that he had heard on an airplane.
Dolly PartonGUEST
He just faxed me saying it was a song that needed writing and it had touched him.
Jeff BiggsHOST
Unless I miss one, I think that's it.
Jeff BiggsHOST
And Peace Train, welcome back.
Jeff BiggsHOST
I will not disrespect Simeon Verheim for their great work in 2023, but Nemo was a great trade, really was.
Jeff BiggsHOST
For a lot of the criticism that we've had, that was a great move.
Jim WolkenmuthHOST
I hope people get some inspiration or possibly a little hope to see other people taking action.
Jim WolkenmuthHOST
So we're going to finish up the show based on your recommendation to play Peace Train by Dolly Parton.
Harvey BennettHOST
She just
Jim WolkenmuthHOST
captured the
Harvey BennettHOST
But there is no amount of money that anyone could give me to have to live through it again either.
Harvey BennettHOST
So she wasn't romanticizing it.
Harvey BennettHOST
Here's Dolly and Peace Train.
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His soul has his cut, Sophia was in death's end.
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