Train to Cheyenne
Erin Heist - vocals & rhythm guitar
Andrew Heist - fiddle & harmony vocals
Gabrielle Macrae - clawhammer banjo
Luke Ydstie - bass
Recorded & Produced by Kati Claborn at the Rope Room Studio in Astoria, Oregon
Mixed by Adam Selzer
Mastered by Jon Neufeld
During 2020 Heist wrote a minimum of one song a month and this was January’s song. Written from the perspective of Heist’s great-grandma Betty, a depression-era mail-order bride, “Train to Cheyenne” features the haunting old time fiddle and harmonies of Andrew Heist. Betty had a son out of wedlock and worked as a housemaid in Chicago in the 1920s. Her pastor arranged for her to marry a Wyoming cowboy and so Betty loaded up her young son and moved out West to marry a man she’d never met.