ANNETTE CARSON
The Yardbirds recorded “Train Kept A-Rollin’” while they were on their American tour in 1965. In her biography of Jeff Beck, who was lead guitarist for the band at that time, Annette Carson notes (as quoted in Wikipedia) that their “propulsive, power-driven version, however, deviated radically from the original. . . . [Their] recording plucked the old Rock & Roll Trio number from obscurity and turned it into a classic among classics.” Cub Koda writing for Allmusic notes of the Yardbirds’ version that they made “Train Kept A-Rollin’” a “classic guitar riff song for the ages”.
(June 2015)
