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Subject: Looking for songs about semis and From: longwalker Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:40 PM HI agian I am all so looking for semi trunks and all open road songs thanks |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: BobKnight Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:44 PM Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen did quite a few on their album from around 1972/3. Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road - Taj Mahal did a good version too. White Line Fever - Merle Haggard. There must be hundreds of them out there. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: oldhippie Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM Semis "I Believe He's Gonna Drive That Rig To Glory" - Craig Donaldson "Phantom 309" "Convoy" Road songs "The Road Goes On Forever, and the Party Never Ends" yes, there are hundereds more.... |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: GUEST,Gene Date: 05 Apr 09 - 07:31 PM Try this old MUDCAT post! http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=19754#204189 |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 05 Apr 09 - 07:58 PM My husband likes C.W. McCall. He sings songs about driving trucks cross-country. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: Joe_F Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:06 PM There's a good song by Margaret Macarthur about a runaway truck in Brattleboro, but now I can't find it. Also, "Can this compact take the impact? There's a diesel on my tail". |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: meself Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:08 PM Truck Drivin' Man: "I climbed back on board my big semi,/Then like a flash I was gone". (Pronounced "sem-eye" in the recording I learned it from many, many years ago). |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: meself Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:09 PM Bud the Spud, by Stompin' Tom Connors. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: kendall Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:21 PM It sure as hell aint country by me. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: curmudgeon Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:24 PM Not country, but good: Champion At Keeping 'Em Rolling and Twenty One Years, both by Ewan MacColl |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: meself Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:28 PM "It sure as hell aint country by me." Did you really write that one? I'd forgotten there's a truck in it ... |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: meself Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:28 PM England's Motorways. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: Jack Campin Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:33 PM Dave Dudley, "Rolaids, Doan's Pills, and Preparation H". |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: Don Firth Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:40 PM Here you go: CLICKY Jerry Middaugh sings "Backing to Birmingham." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: Melissa Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:45 PM Truck Driver's Queen I've Been Everywhere 30,000 Pounds of Bananas Viagra in the Water Up This Hill and Down..it's a mighty, mighty long road. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: GUEST,pattyClink Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:48 PM Hawkerladdie, the Lost Planet Airmen did "Mama Hated Diesels" on that album, don't recall any of the others right now. As for other nominees, I think the official name is "Movin'", but everybody knows it as "Gimme Weeds, Whites, and Wine" or that song with the Tucson to Tucumcari line. and "Trucking" from the Dead. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: open mike Date: 05 Apr 09 - 10:05 PM a long list here: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/03/30/104156.php Hot rod Linclon by commander cody..one of 12 cuts on the album "truck driving songs" http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=dyp1RfhR9wG&ei=bWLZSebtNaKstAOP6pioCg&sa=X&oi=music&ct=landing&cd=2 |
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Subject: RE: Looking for songs about semis and From: longwalker Date: 05 Apr 09 - 11:27 PM Thank you all your help in this again |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Declan Date: 06 Apr 09 - 02:31 AM Patticlink, That song is called Willin' by Lowel George. Meself Englands Motorways is about building them, not driving on them, but you probably knew that. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: GUEST,Mr Red Date: 06 Apr 09 - 03:42 AM In the UK the words like artic and articulated or tractor and trailer would produce results in a search. Does the McColl song "Forty Foot Trailer" qualify? |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: BobKnight Date: 06 Apr 09 - 04:29 AM Guest: On that Commander Cody album there was "Looking At The World Through A Windshield, Truck Drivin' Man, Mama Hated Deisels," and "My Semi Truck Won't Start." Also had a compilation album with a great song called, "Roll On Big Mama," but I can't remember who sang it now. Jackson Browne "Runnin On Empty, is another good "road" song, and Kathy Matea had a great version of "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses." Pure Prairie League had "Two Lane Highway," and "I'll Fix Your Flat Tyre Merle." |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: kendall Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:19 AM Yes, meself, I wrote that back in 1993 as I recall. It came out of a true incident. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: kendall Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:23 AM If anyone wants the lyrics you can just google it. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: GUEST,OldNicKilby Date: 06 Apr 09 - 10:51 AM Have a look at Roddy Feltons "Interplanetary Trucker" He is on Fcaebook or Youtube |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: topical tom Date: 06 Apr 09 - 11:11 AM Another song would be "Give Me Forty Acres". There are a few more road songs in this link as well. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: meself Date: 06 Apr 09 - 11:24 AM "Meself Englands Motorways is about building them, not driving on them, but you probably knew that." Actually, I didn't. Maybe I've got the wrong song. I'm thinking of the one set to the same tune as "Tramps and Hawkers": "Remember lad, he's still your dad, although he's far away ... " Is that the one? |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: GUEST,Russ Date: 06 Apr 09 - 11:59 AM I like Townes Van Zandt's "White Freight Liner Blues" Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: open mike Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:14 PM this songwriter specialized in road/truck songs http://www.redsovine.com/ there also is a song called feather river turn around which i am trying to find. also Red Simpson wrote a few.. http://www.virtualtruckroute.com/music_simpson.html http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.virtualtruckroute.com/music_simpson.html&ei=gDbaSfL0Epi6tQPPhKSrCg&usg=AFQjCNHa0DoLEE_UumCdFhkAQTDzsAUv8w http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/andysgirl/&ei=gDbaSfL0Epi6tQPPhKSrCg&usg=AFQjCNEhIyjyFpMy36ecUFctgFffonbqXg http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=8&q=http://www.amazon.com/Best-Red-Simpson-Country-Western/dp/B00000JYAB&ei=gDbaSfL0Epi6tQPPhKSrCg&usg=AFQjCNG2zC1YvtUVq2QwKOXvDN25A4ZprA |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Declan Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:25 PM Meself, That's the song I meant. Come to think of it, there may be no reason to assume the father is building the motorway rather than driving on it, but in my mind it was always the former. I must go and check out the lyrics and see if I can work out why. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Declan Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:30 PM Lyrics are here. In fact they do say he is working on the site of the motorway and that he will be back when he's built his motorway, so it looks like he was a navvy rather than a trucker. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: meself Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:55 PM Thanks! Now I know ... |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:59 PM Movin' On by Hank Snow? Seamus |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Mike in Brunswick Date: 06 Apr 09 - 03:08 PM "Little Liza Jane" by Dave Carter, from the CD "When I Go" by Carter and Tracy Grammer. Completely different from the better known song with the same title. Mike |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 07 Apr 09 - 01:14 PM "Long Thin Dawn" by Gordon Lightfoot, not one of his better known numbers and a little different, more "country" style. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (D) That (G) long thin (D) dawn That (G) long thin (D) dawn Is coming (A7) on a(D)gain I've seen the hills of Frisco and the (G) streets of Montre(D)al In every town I've been to I've (E7) had someone to (A7) call From (D) Winnipeg to Edmonton, Van(G)couver to St. (D) Paul I've had so many good friends I (G) couldn't miss them (A) all In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again Last night I came to Denver beneath the snowcapped ridge I thought about my darling as I stood beneath the bridge And there were times I made her cry but I guess by now she's learned That any time I've wandered I always have returned In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again Right now I'm on a highway just east of Omaha Riding shotgun on the biggest rig you ever saw With forty tons of pig iron and a trucker known as Bill All the way to Windsor, we've got some miles to kill In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again While climbing up a hillside, Bill drops her down a gear And the engine sings so sweetly 'tis music to my ear I tell him how I long to be just like him if I can Driving like the restless wind across this precious land In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again Says Bill, "The air is clean tonight," as he puffs a big cigar "And if this rig keeps rolling, my boy you'll travel far But when you are a trucker you'll come to realize The only thing a man can do is watch the world go by" In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again That long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: kendall Date: 07 Apr 09 - 02:03 PM Slim Dusty sang one about being forced off the road and knowing he was going to die. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: mg Date: 07 Apr 09 - 03:17 PM Trucker's Cafe by Sylvia Tyson. I think there is a version on you tube. mg |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Ref Date: 07 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM Kenworth Of My Dreams by Richard Shindell |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Sookite Date: 08 Apr 09 - 04:15 PM Yes, the Shindell tune, Kenworth of My Dreams is great. I have it in my repetoire. I sold my old Camaro I sold my fishing boat A friend said he would cosign On a small commercial loan So I shopped around until I found A rig within my means I put fifteen thousand dollars down On the Kenworth of my dreams My sister's husband helped me out When we took the thing apart Every bolt and piston I knew them all by heart We cleaned her out and painted her And brought her up to speed I proudly put my name upon The Kenworth of my dreams But sometimes late at night Out on some interstate I hear those sad country songs True love found, true love gone Lately I just turn the damn thing off A lot of folks just shook their heads Convinced that I'd lost mine They said living in a God-damned truck Is just a waste of time That to spend yhour life behind the wheel Ain't as great as it might seem I just thanked them all and left one night In the Kenworth of my dreams But sometimes late at night Out on some interstate I hear those sad country songs True love found, true love gone Lately I just turn the damn thing off Business, it's been pretty good I've no cause to complain I haul bourbon up to Buffalo And frozen foods to Maine Toxic waste or Quaker State It's all the same to me I'll go anywhere for anything In the Kenworth of my dreams... |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: melodeonboy Date: 11 Apr 09 - 06:13 AM "18 Wheels" (also Commander Cody) |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Gene Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:46 PM I discovered a pair of Truckin' Songs I had never heard of and still haven't heard of or seen them on any other source since...on an LP I picked up in the bargain bin somewhere along the way several years ago... 'A GRAIN OF SALT' by a group of fantastic musicians in oklahoma. John Henry - is the title of one song, and the other- Ode To The Road. PM for mp3: cn8gv9@aim.com |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: BTMP Date: 11 Apr 09 - 07:39 PM How about 'Midnight on the Highway' from Hot Rize, and 'Widowmaker' by Jimmy Martin. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Apr 09 - 03:41 AM The Digital Tradition has: |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: Dave Illingworth Date: 12 Apr 09 - 06:25 AM Ref Kendall's message,I think the Slim Dusty song was called "Lights on the hill" written by his wife Joy McKean. Slim sang loads of Australian trucking songs, and occasionally recorded whole albums of the genre, e.g. "TRUCKS ON THE TRACK" and "LIGHTS ON THE HILL". Other notable songs are:- "The worst in the world" "Foggy mirrors" "Bent Axle Bob" "There lies an old workhorse" "Kelly's offsider" "I don't sleep at night" "One truckie's epitaph" and loads more. G'day |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: van lingle Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:02 AM Semi-Crazy by Junior Brown (in duet with Red Simpson) from a great album of the same name. Mama Knows the Highway by Hal Ketchum (at least he sang it). |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: GUEST,Rosanna Date: 04 Aug 11 - 02:44 PM are any of these songs about a truck driver that loses his mom why he is on the road, someone told my mom about a song like that but we haven heard it and thats what happened to my dad. |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: saulgoldie Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:07 PM There's a song by Bill Staines that I can't recall the title of at the moment. Something "Give me a good heavy load and a clear stretch of road, and I'll let that old bulldog whine." "Wild, Wild Heart," perhaps? On the "First Million Miles" album, er, CD IIRC. Ahh, trucks. And trains and boats. Songs about transportation seem to abound. Saul |
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Subject: RE: songs about semi trucks & open road From: JohnInKansas Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:53 PM One I didn't see mentioned is "Wolf Creek Pass." Lin never cared much for it until we moved from Seattle area back to Kansas. I had about 4,000 lb inside the van and was towing the camper/popup (about 3,500 lb). She towed a Uhaul trailer that had about 3,800 lb in it, behind her little purple toytruck Chevy S10 (about 3200 lb GVW). Shortly after we got to the bottom of the pass, she said "I appreciate that one a lot more now." It's a "comic song" but with a lot of truth in it, and I can assure you that the 18-wheelers (& the 22s) don't care much for that particular bit of highway. A little more light-hearted comic song, that may reflect the "loneliness of the long haul" if you think about it some, was called - I think - "The Girl on the Billboard," or something similar. As to a complaint above that "it ain't Country," from the "lone rider" with his ass in the saddle for long hard lonely hours to putting your ass 9 feet up in the seat of a rig isn't really much of a switch. The bull herder's just a bull hauler now. The rig likely has air conditioning, but it won't take you home by itself if you take a nap on the job, so the hazards are a little different, but it's a lot of the same kinds of people with similar "cultures." John |
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