"Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie - woogie players and their boogie - woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade "Lux '' Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie - style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas. '' Alan Lomax, wrote: "Anonymous black musicians, longing to grab a train and ride away from their troubles, incorporated the rhythms of the steam locomotive and the moan of their whistles into the new dance music they were playing in jukes and dance halls. Boogie - woogie forever changed piano playing, as ham - handed black piano players transformed the instrument into a polyrhythmic railroad train. ''
what mode of transportation do historians associate with boogie-woogie music
railroad train