The Steamdrill Race
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz) * Track #28 On Big Man: The Legend of John Henry
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Album Big Man: The Legend of John Henry
- #1Overture
Cannonball Adderley
- #2Anybody Need a Big Man
Cannonball Adderley & Robert Guillaume & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #3Who Bend the Rainbow
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #4Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster’s Chant
Cannonball Adderley
- #5Ten Mile of Mountain / Recitative: Who Up in Heaven
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #6Dialogue: “Lord, how come you never told me...”
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #7Gonna Give Lovin’ a Try
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #8The Broomstick Song
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #9Next Year in Jerusalem
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #10Dialogue: ”If we get there Carrie...”
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz) & Randy Crawford
- #11Stayin’ Place (Intro)
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #12Stayin’ Place
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #13Dialogue: “January...”
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #14A New Star Risin’
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #15The Steamdrill Race (Intro)
Cannonball Adderley & Robert Guillaume
- #16Anybody Need a Big Man (Reprise)
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #17Grind Your Own Coffee
Cannonball Adderley &
- #18Anybody Need a Big Man / Dialogue
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #19Hundred an’ One Year / M’ria
Cannonball Adderley
- #20River
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #21A New Star Risin’ (Reprise)
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #22Dialogue: “Jass...”
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford & Robert Guillaume
- #23Hundred an’ One Year / M’ria (Reprise)
Cannonball Adderley
- #24Recitative: Born Black
Cannonball Adderley & Robert Guillaume
- #25Dialogue: “John Henry...”
Cannonball Adderley & Robert Guillaume
- #26Poundin’
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #27Dialogue: “Now a man gotta speak...”
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz) &
- #28The Steamdrill Race
Cannonball Adderley & Joe Williams (Jazz)
- #29We Saved / Dialogue
Cannonball Adderley
- #30Jesus Where You Now?
Cannonball Adderley & Randy Crawford
- #31If I Was Jehovah
Cannonball Adderley & Robert Guillaume
- #32On His Bones
Cannonball Adderley
The Steamdrill Race by Cannonball Adderley (Ft. Joe Williams (Jazz))
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Cannonball AdderleyJoe Williams (Jazz)The Steamdrill Race Lyrics
[JOHN HENRY, spoken]
Jesus, Jesus, bend your ear down and hear me!
Listen, let this mornin' all my sins atone
Once I bent you a rainbow
To covenize your sky
Now I'm bendin' you a rainbow out of stone
Great God!
Bend this mountain to a rainbow of stone!
The Steamdrill Race Q&A
Who wrote The Steamdrill Race's ?
The Steamdrill Race was written by Cannonball Adderley & Nat Adderley & Diane Lampert & Peter Farrow.
Who produced The Steamdrill Race's ?
The Steamdrill Race was produced by Cannonball Adderley & Nat Adderley & David Axelrod.