When I was a boy, everyone in Rockland heard freight trains at night, travelling on the far side of the Ottawa River. The trains followed the Thurso, Mason-Angers, Gatineau line, the far-away mournful cries of their whistles reverberating in the dark. There is no other sound like it. When I started playing music at the … Continue reading Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry”