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12 Dec 09 - 12:00 AM (#2786647) Subject: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Little Hawk It's hard to beat this one. Del Reeves singing "Girl On The Billboard". Girl On The Billboard |
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12 Dec 09 - 12:00 AM (#2786648) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Little Hawk Damn! I should have posted it in the upper section. Please move it there, somebody? |
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12 Dec 09 - 12:03 AM (#2786651) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: MGM·Lion ... and then "Keep On Truckin'" |
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12 Dec 09 - 02:00 AM (#2786680) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: catspaw49 You really need help here Hawk.............. Dave Dudley and "Six Days on the Road" The Late and Great Jerry Reed...."Eastbound and Down" C.W.McCall doing "Convoy" Merle Haggard......"Movin' On" (TV show theme) The Flying Burrito Bros......"White Line Fever" And then there are the 567,204 Red Sovine fuckers that I ain't gonna' link....... Spaw |
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12 Dec 09 - 04:01 AM (#2786710) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: wilbyhillbilly One of the biggest tear jerkers of Red must be Teddy Bear! |
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12 Dec 09 - 06:45 AM (#2786775) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Little Hawk "Six Days on the Road" occurred to me immediately too, Spaw, but I thought I'd start with "Girl On The Billboard" instead and let others take it from there. |
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12 Dec 09 - 08:25 AM (#2786815) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST 'willing' by Lttle Feat? Ifor |
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12 Dec 09 - 08:49 AM (#2786825) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Bobert "Belly Full of Tennesee" by John Stewart... Tad more obscure but heck of a good truckin' song... "Hot Rod Lincoln", Johnny Bond in 1960 and Commander Cody in the 70's is the truckin' song of all truckin' songs... Well, except "8 Days on the Road" "Phantom 409", sorry but can't remember who did that song... Thems is starters... I'll come up with more later... B~ |
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12 Dec 09 - 08:55 AM (#2786831) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Little Hawk Yeah! That's another one I was thinking of. "Willin'" by Little Feat And here's an incredible rendition of it by: Linda Ronstadt |
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12 Dec 09 - 09:57 AM (#2786855) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: catspaw49 Bobertz......Phantom409 is yet another Red Sovine piece of shit. I get physically ill just thinking about Red Sovine songs.................. Spaw |
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12 Dec 09 - 11:24 AM (#2786903) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: John MacKenzie Who? |
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12 Dec 09 - 12:02 PM (#2786930) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Little Hawk I happen to have an old vinyl double album of K-Tel's issue of Red Sovine's 30 Greatest Hits here, including his classic song "Little Rosa". I got it in a garage sale for 25 cents. Guess who it's gonna be mailed to this Christmas.... ;-) |
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12 Dec 09 - 12:07 PM (#2786937) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Bobert Yeah, that's right Spawz... It was Red Sovine's song... Hey, I thought it was a purdy good song... Little smaltzy but, hey, I like a good smaltzy song now and then... No, not "Honey"... There's where I draw the line... BTW, ya'll... Anyone remember the John Stewart song I mentioned??? It can be rockified out to a purdy good drivin'ass country rock song... B~ |
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12 Dec 09 - 12:17 PM (#2786946) Subject: RE: BS: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST "Water In The Fuel" - Fred Eaglesmith (but Casey Chambers does a better cover) "Truckin'" - Grateful Dead |
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12 Dec 09 - 01:22 PM (#2786986) Subject: Lyr Add: HONEY (parody) From: catspaw49 Dammit Bobertz......I told you before that I hated "Honey" even more, THEN I wrote my own lyrics and made it all better! "HONEY".......(revised edition) See the tree, How big its grown And now you're dead I can't get blown I've got an itch. When you were alive It cost twenty-five Why did you always charge so much You fuckin' bitch Our tree grew large, It fell on you Now you're gone, My balls are blue I can't get laid. So now I've started shagging sheep And sometimes chickens in their sleep But they want paid. Oh Honey I miss you Cause when you were alive I could at least get a hand job For a buck fifty-five. Spaw |
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12 Dec 09 - 01:32 PM (#2786989) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T One of my favourites: Dick Curless: TOMBSTONE EVERY MILE |
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12 Dec 09 - 01:38 PM (#2786991) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T If you'r a Canadian....you cant rule this one out: Stompin' Tom Connors: BUD THE SPUD |
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12 Dec 09 - 01:44 PM (#2786994) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T Wouldn't call it great, but there was a lways something about this one that makes me recall it, not sure what it is....maybe the music: Red Sovine: TRUCK DRIVIN' SON OF A GUN |
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12 Dec 09 - 02:15 PM (#2787004) Subject: Lyr Add: TRUCK STOP GIRL (Lowell George) From: Lonesome EJ Lowell George's Truck Stop Girl has always been one of my favorites. Tailights flickering as he pulled in to the truckstop The same old crowd was hangin' out again tonight He said, "Fill up my tank while I go check my load It feels like it's shifting all around" He was the kind of man to do all he could Above all he had integrity But he was so young And on a ten city run In love with a truck stop girl As he went inside, he was merrily greeted By the girl with whom he was in love She held out a glass and said, "Have another This is the last time we can meet" With her hair piled up high and a look in her eye That would turn any good man's blood to wine All his eyes could see, well all his eyes could see Was the stare from all those around him He ran out to the lot, and climbed into his rig And drove off without tightening down It was a terrible thing, to see what remained Of the rig that poor Danny was in And he was so young and on a ten city run In love with a truck stop girl But he was so young, and on a ten city run In love with a truck stop girl |
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12 Dec 09 - 02:34 PM (#2787011) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,bankley Lowell G. was great... okay... on oldie by Dick Curliss "Tombstone Every Mile" and the more recent "Home to Houston" by Steve Earle "When I pulled out of Basra, they all wished me luck Just like they always did before With a bulletproof screen on the hood of my truck And a Bradley on my back door I wound her up and shifted her down And I offered this prayer to my Lord I said 'God, get me back home to Houston alive And I won't drive a truck anymore"........ |
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12 Dec 09 - 02:57 PM (#2787021) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Bobert Ain't exactly, ahhhhhhh, a "truckin" song there, Spawzer... Think ya' need to put yer glasses on, son... And didn't I tell that would make ya' go blind??? |
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12 Dec 09 - 03:13 PM (#2787030) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Lonesome EJ How about White Freight Liner? That song kicks butt at every bluegrass jam I've been to. |
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12 Dec 09 - 03:27 PM (#2787035) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: catspaw49 AW Bobertz I was just trying to remove "Honey" from your schmaltzy song list. Spaw |
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12 Dec 09 - 04:52 PM (#2787081) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,number 6 Cannonball biLL |
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12 Dec 09 - 04:54 PM (#2787084) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: John MacKenzie Don't you come a knockin' if'n you see my rig a-rockin' |
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12 Dec 09 - 04:59 PM (#2787086) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T Truckin'....from another perspective: t: Melinda Schneider: MEN IN TRUCKS |
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12 Dec 09 - 05:05 PM (#2787092) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,number 6 Here's a very good one from the late great Townes Van Zandt White Freightliner Blues biLL |
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12 Dec 09 - 05:10 PM (#2787094) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T It's worth looking down under....for a fine song that could show us where truck'in may be goining here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2Lv6hv2EM |
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12 Dec 09 - 05:18 PM (#2787099) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T I encourage you to go to you tube and check out a few Slim Dusty songs...refreshing from our commercial type songs |
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12 Dec 09 - 05:22 PM (#2787101) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,number 6 "Knights of the Road" by Fairport Convention from their album Rosie. biLL |
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12 Dec 09 - 05:30 PM (#2787106) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T A Slim song, with Cajun hints: Slim Dusty: LIGHTS ON THE HILL |
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12 Dec 09 - 10:19 PM (#2787213) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: bankley "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses".... a hit for Kathy Mattea |
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12 Dec 09 - 10:29 PM (#2787216) Subject: Lyr Add: BIG WHEEL (Jim Croce) From: catspaw49 Jim Croce actually drove truck for awhile and he had a couple of pretty good songs. One was "Speedball Tucker" and the other was...... Big Wheel......Jim Croce Chorus: Big wheel, don't you roll Big diesel, don't you whine Through the night as I'm runnin' down the road Big semi, don't you stop, 'cause if you do I'm not Gonna make it back to Baltimore with my load Well, the truckstop's warm and friendly And the coffee keeps me up And the waitress there would like to waste my time But I'll have to pass it by As it's down the road I fly Just a racin' with that pocket watch of mine Chorus Smoke a-puffin', tires a-hummin' Burnin' up the road Countin' road signs and the miles to Baltimore One eye out for weighin' stations One for radar traps They can't stop me, 'cause my plans don't call for that Spaw |
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12 Dec 09 - 10:47 PM (#2787222) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Charley Noble No trucking songs about Diamond Reos? Charley Noble |
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13 Dec 09 - 04:13 AM (#2787275) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Backwoodsman Richard Shindell's 'Next Best Western' and 'Kenworth Of My Dreams'. |
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13 Dec 09 - 05:14 AM (#2787285) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: kendall My friend, Joan Sprung wrote a good trucking song which goes partly like: Out on the highway driving all alone Talking out loud to my radio Gotta move a little faster so I can make my run Then I'll be looking for some place to go. I sell my soul to the Devil every night He's hiding in a bottle waiting there Another drink of whiskey gonna make it alright Gonna make the lonely feeling disappear. There's more if you want it. I offered this to my friend, Dick Curless but he wouldn't touch it. Said he was done with the booze in any form. |
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13 Dec 09 - 11:39 AM (#2787422) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,bankley Hey Kendall, you knew Dick Curless aka The Baron ? He's one of my favorite singers, my cousin Dougie Trinner played guitar for him way back around the time of 'Duke and the Swingbillies' in Maine... that's how I came to appreciate his voice yeah, I'd like to see the rest of that song.... thanks... R |
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13 Dec 09 - 11:49 AM (#2787429) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Phot Sorry Spaw, I quite like Phantom...........*g* C W McAll's Convoy has to be the best though. Did you know that big Bad Ass Mack is still rolling? She's on U Tube somewhere, and has her own website! This side of the pond its a little different, if this link works!............ Scania Wassail!! Chris |
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13 Dec 09 - 12:02 PM (#2787438) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: John MacKenzie That was trucking good fun Chris |
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13 Dec 09 - 03:42 PM (#2787566) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Kendall Yes I knew Dick back when he was the Tumbleweed Kid. He was about 18 at the time and I got one of his photos. Handsome and what a voice! I'll have to get Joan's permission to post that song here. |
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13 Dec 09 - 03:49 PM (#2787571) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T Weird As likely captures first in the best alternative trucking song: Weird Al Yankovic: TRUCK DRIVIN' SONG |
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13 Dec 09 - 04:58 PM (#2787612) Subject: Lyr Add: DEVIL IN A BOTTLE (J. Sprung) From: kendall Here 'tis. Devil in a Bottle J. Sprung 1903 Out on the highway, drivin' all alone Talking out loud to my radio Gotta move a little faster so that I can make my run Then I'll be looking for someplace to go...(where I can) Cho: Sell my soul to the devil every night He's hidin' in a bottle waitin' there Another drink o' whiskey gonna make it all right; Gonna make the lonely feelin' disappear. Today is just like yesterday, tomorrow be the same, I'm just another rig out on the endless road And anywhere I travel no one ever knows my name Or cares if I pull a heavy load...(so I) Wish I had a woman of my own, somewhere; All dressed up in sweet perfume and welcome smiles And when I'm gone away, she'll be waitin' for me there, Heaven at the end of all the miles...(but now I) I look for a tavern in every town I pass And a whiskey on the bar to set me almost free And when I find my name at the bottom of the glass That'll be the last drink for me...(I) |
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13 Dec 09 - 06:17 PM (#2787658) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Ed T There is always Harry Chapin's 30,000 Pounds of Bananas to consider. |
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13 Dec 09 - 09:45 PM (#2787750) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: deadfrett How about Jim & Jesse's "Diesel on my tail"? Any one heard the "The Phantom Wind Breaker"? Dave |
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14 Dec 09 - 12:10 AM (#2787790) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: fumblefingers Dick Curless "Drag'em off the Interstate, sock it to 'em JP Blues" John Anderson "Chicken Truck" |
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14 Dec 09 - 12:41 AM (#2787800) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Sandy Mc Lean At one point in my life I was a driver of the big rigs. One song that I related to was Curles' "Tombstone Every Mile" which has already been posted. Another was the Willis Brothers "Give Me Forty Acres". I think both relate strongly to the sheer terror of when I was a greenhorn driver. Give Me Forty Acres |
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14 Dec 09 - 02:46 AM (#2787823) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Roger Knowles How about 'Mama Hated Diesels' & 'Truck Drivin' Queen' ? I always liked those two. |
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14 Dec 09 - 02:59 AM (#2787827) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Cluin Terry Fell's Truck Drivin' Man, covered by many. |
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14 Dec 09 - 03:02 AM (#2787829) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: melodeonboy Commander Cody did quite a few - "Truck Drivin' Man", "18 Wheels", "Semi-Truck", "Tina Louise", "Lookin' At The World Through a Windshield", "Truckin, ****in'" as well as some of those mentioned above. |
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14 Dec 09 - 05:21 AM (#2787878) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: mkebenn Bobert. Yea, I know "Bellyfull",Never thought of it as a trucking song, though.Are you familiar with Stewart's "Eighteen Wheels"? From "Fire in the Wind" I belive. has one of the greatest verses ever. IMHO Chevrolet burnin' in the left hand lane, me, I'm lookin' down thru the window pane Behind's layin with her head in his lap I don't believe she's takin' a nap but I ain't got time tonight Mike |
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14 Dec 09 - 05:31 AM (#2787886) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: bankley thanks Kendall... I like the lyric... any music to it ? R. |
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14 Dec 09 - 11:37 AM (#2788089) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Brian Daniels Also from the Commander Cody "cannon": From The Womb to The Tomb Truck Stop Rock Truck Stop At The End Of The World |
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14 Dec 09 - 12:04 PM (#2788104) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego 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. |
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14 Dec 09 - 02:40 PM (#2788232) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Kendall Yes, bankley, I'll see if I can get it up but I really don't know how to do that techy stuff. |
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14 Dec 09 - 09:33 PM (#2788489) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: fumblefingers Curtis Leach 1964 - Highway Man |
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14 Dec 09 - 11:02 PM (#2788513) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Clifton53 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 " |
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15 Dec 09 - 12:50 AM (#2788549) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: fumblefingers Jimmy Martin - Widow Maker |
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15 Dec 09 - 11:58 AM (#2788882) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Suffet Dead and Gone -- the tragic but swinging story of Truckstop Sal and Cowboy John. Enjoy! --- Steve |
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15 Dec 09 - 08:22 PM (#2789285) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Joe_F "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? |
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17 Dec 09 - 08:21 PM (#2790865) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Jake Real song - Lights on the hill -- Slim Dusty |
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17 Dec 09 - 09:01 PM (#2790887) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,999 Someone has to say it: "Convoy". |
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18 Dec 09 - 03:36 AM (#2790991) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: evansakes 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 |
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10 Feb 10 - 11:41 PM (#2835747) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST,Bob in San Francisco 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. |
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10 Feb 10 - 11:45 PM (#2835749) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: GUEST 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' . . . . |
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11 Feb 10 - 08:28 PM (#2836714) Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs! From: Lonesome EJ 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. |