Slide guitar and lazy blues grooves that turn railroad management into a front porch hangout session. Railroad Tycoon II dropped this blues compilation in 1998, and it goes way harder on authentic blues feel than any strategy game has a right to.
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"Lazy Slide Pickin" is exactly what it sounds like, fingerpicked acoustic with a slide that drips with Southern heat. "Torchered Blues" brings distorted electric into the mix with this grinding, restless energy. "Train O'Monica" rolls along with a rhythm that literally sounds like wheels on tracks.
The whole thing feels like somebody recorded a bar band in a train depot and said yeah, ship it. "The Grind" has that workday heaviness, perfect for when your rail empire is hemorrhaging money. Even "Train Derail" sounds like bad news delivered through a harmonica.
If you spent the late 90s laying track and manipulating stock prices in a Sid Meier game, this blues set was the unlikely soundtrack to your robber baron fantasies.