Great Truckin' Songs!

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: bankley
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 05:31 AM

thanks Kendall... I like the lyric... any music to it ? R.

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,Brian Daniels
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 11:37 AM

Also from the Commander Cody "cannon":

From The Womb to The Tomb
Truck Stop Rock
Truck Stop At The End Of The World

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 12:04 PM

One of Gordon Lightfoot's more obscure songs is "Long Thin Dawn," a rhythmic driving number about cross country trucking. Another is John Stewart's "July, You're A Woman" aka "Saint of San Joaquin." I come from the San Joaquin Valley, but that's not why I like the song.

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,Kendall
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 02:40 PM

Yes, bankley, I'll see if I can get it up but I really don't know how to do that techy stuff.

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: fumblefingers
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 09:33 PM

Curtis Leach 1964 - Highway Man

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: Clifton53
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 11:02 PM

An obscure tune from Alvin Crow and The Pleasant Valley Boys called "Dynamite Diana" comes to mind, as well as 'Champion At Keepin Them Rollin", I think that's the title, by The Dubliners.

Also, by Ritchie Kavanagh, a song called " Juggernaut "

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: fumblefingers
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:50 AM

Jimmy Martin - Widow Maker

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: Suffet
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 11:58 AM

Dead and Gone -- the tragic but swinging story of Truckstop Sal and Cowboy John.

Enjoy!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:22 PM

"Champion at Keeping 'em Rolling" is by Ewan MacColl.

One might also mention "The Belle of Avenue A" by The Fugs, tho it is only about a trucker, not about trucking.

Does "Trucking the Blues Away" count?

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,Jake
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 08:21 PM

Real song -
Lights on the hill -- Slim Dusty

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 09:01 PM

Someone has to say it: "Convoy".

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: evansakes
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 03:36 AM

Someone already HAS said it (three or four times!) Mercy sakes alive :-)

Also mentioned above a couple of times but in my opinion the greatest ever truckdriving song as well as the saddest (probably one of the saddest songs of any kind in fact) 'Mama Hated Diesels'. Take a bow, Mr Blackie Farrell.

"Now it's me and the local preacher
Standing in the graveyard grass
Staring down at the highway
Watching those big rigs pass
Well he laid his hand upon me
And he prayed for quite some time
But I could barely understand the words he said
Behind that highway's whine

Then he handed me a faded photograph
He said he found it in my mama's hand
He said "Son I'm afraid that you and this picture
Were the best your Mama ever had"
Well I looked down at that picture
It was Mama and some guy
Standing in front of a semi-truck
"Just Married" painted on the side"

Bill Kirchen still does it like he did with the Commander way back when....

It's filmed in a bar so you have to try to ignore the drunken eejits talking and fighting throughout Mama Hated Diesels

There's also a pretty good (and slightly surreal) truckdriving song by the late great Dave Carter (sung here with Tracy Grammer)

Little Liza Jane

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST,Bob in San Francisco
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:41 PM

As a rabid Bill Kirchen fan, I loved it yesterday when the DJ at Outlaw Country on sat radio played "Freightliner Fever", followed by "Truckstop at the End of the World" (which I never realized are the exact same tune with different lyrics!), and then completed the hat trick with Kirchen's rendition of "Mama Hated Diesels".

They play a great mix on that station.

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:45 PM

Thanks, TwickFolk. You have NO idea how much I disliked that song ("Convoy"). It ranked right up there beside "Horse With No Name".

'We got ourselves a horse with no name' . . . .

Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 08:28 PM

White Line Fever. I was estranged from Merle in the sixties and seventies, but now I can appreciate him, like your Uncle with the tattoos and the prison record. Just steer clear when he gets to drinkin.