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Due to their roles in so many people's lives, trucks have gotten a lot of love in country music. Here are 10 tracks in honor of trucks.
Below, we look at 10 classic rock songs centered around the theme of driving. Like stories like this?
Maybe he was looking for a Red Sovine anthology of truck-driving songs? A version of Dave Dudley's classic "Six Days on the Road?" Merle Haggard's ode to the gear-jammer, "Movin' On," perhaps?
Red Simpson, Bakersfield musician and Dust Bowl migrant whose 1971 country hit "I'm a Truck" helped propel a national enthusiasm for romantic truck-driving lore, has died.
This classic was written by Australian Geoff Mack, whose lyrics were dotted with cities and towns Down Under. With new destinations of Reno, Chicago, Fargo and other North American burgs, the song ...
TORONTO, Ont. - Why are there so few Canadian trucking songs? Outside of "Bud the Spud," one is hard pressed to come up with any truck driving tunes that fly the Maple Leaf.Yes, there was Hank Snow an ...
Dave Dudley, the country music singer regarded by many as the "father of truck driving songs," has died.
I like a good truck-driving song. Was “Convoy” a good truck-driving song? Your artistic mileage may vary, but in terms of commercial success, “Convoy,” released in 1975 at the height of ...
Bakersfield Sound pioneer Red Simpson, a country "truck driving" singer, had died at 81.
Church wrote the track — both a nod to powerful women and to country music’s storied past of truck-driver songs — with collaborators Casey Beathard, Luke Dick, and Jeremy Spillman.