Henry Thomas’s “Railroadin’ Some” is sung by a black man, however in Segregating Sound by Karl Miller, he argues that Thomas doesn’t use the traditional black music cues that immediately lets the listener know if the song is sung by a black or white person. This is especially true because the topic he was singing about was relatable for both black and white poor folks. Miller says, “Through this framework, one is more likely to see Henry Thomas’s travels and music as outgrowths of a generalized southern African American culture and predicament than as the action of a conscious and committed professional musician” (Miller 56). I think this is an interesting point that relates back to boundary transgression. All the people who had to move from their rural homes to the cities were able to relate to Thomas’s nostalgic music about what life was like at their homes. Living in a time where I don’t think there’s such a thing as “black music” or “white music”, it’s interesting to learn how mind-blowing it is for some people that Thomas didn’t “sound black”.