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Trains and Boats and Planes is an EP released on Diesel Only Records by Laura Cantrell on April 15, 2008. It is a concept EP centered on the theme of traveling, as exemplified by the title track (a cover of the song of the same name by Burt Bacharach and Hal David).[1] In total, six songs (out of nine) on this EP are covers, including the title track.[2]

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Blurt	(mixed)[3]
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Robert Christgau	[6]

Trains and Boats and Planes
EP by Laura Cantrell
Released	April 15, 2008
Recorded	2007
Studio	The Tape Kitchen, Brooklyn
Genre	Country music
Length	34:30
Label	Diesel Only
Producer	Laura Cantrell, Mark Spencer
Laura Cantrell chronology
Humming by the Flowered Vine (2005) Trains and Boats and Planes (2008) Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music (2011)

Track listing

1. "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:14
2. "Train of Life" (Robert S. Riley, Roger Miller) – 2:49
3. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 6:25
4. "Howard Hughes Blues" (John Hartford) – 3:37
5. "Love Vigilantes" (Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris) – 4:18
6. "Silver Wings" – 4:22
7. "Roll Truck Roll" (Roy Pennington) – 2:38
8. "Big Wheel" (Laura Cantrell) – 2:30
9. "Yonder Comes a Freight Train" (Jay Sherman-Godfrey, Jeremy Tepper) – 3:21

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