America's love affair with the road has been driven by professional drivers and the songs written on it. From the time the first truck to run on the sidewalk, have a cowboy truckers are in a sense, to conquer the open road to stop a truck, cup of Joe, and blow the tornado at a time. Trucking songs are a tribute to the adventure, and early country crooners like Dave Dudley, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, the truck used as a business card, the blues is still infectiousthe singers of today.
The songs that follow are an unofficial Top 10 list for the mid-50s to mid 90s. Although there have been dozens of excellent melodies trucking over the decades and beyond, were the ten members are elected by their traditional income. What is the ingenuity of the CB, or brought attention announces the female perspective, these songs have stood the test of time as the musical film, the air radio play, and perhaps the greatest compliment of other servicesStars.
1. "Convoy" by CW McCall (Bill Fries Songwriter), 1975
This campy classic break full CB and wailing sirens brought truck driving in popular culture. The story unfolds as a series of truck drivers under the handles "Rubber Duck", "Pig Pen" and "Sod Buster" form a convoy of trucks and police gathered around the great advantage of the mid-70s style slang: "Yes, the Smokies often like insects on a bumper They even had a bear-in-the-air / I sez callin 'all trucks, this here is "TheDuck '/ We have a go Huntin. "
The ultra-catchy chorus and a final triumphant helped Seal the Deal campy classic, "For we have a mighty convoy Rockin 'through the night Yes, we have a mighty convoy / Ain' t have a beautiful view / Come and join our convoy? / 't nothin' gonna get in the way Ain / We gonna have this truckin''attraversare the U.S. role "convoy. / Not only that topped the charts in their day, but it was enough influence that director Sam Peckinpah film of the same name publishedthree years later.
2. '"Truck Drivin' Man", Terry Fell, 1954
Going back to the mid-fifties, said the piece bluegrass, complete with boogie-woogie piano, harp, and the buzzing stops blazing pedal steel, the simple story of a truck driver for coffee and a song: "Pour me another cup of coffee / For it is the best in the land / I'll put a nickel in the jukebox / And play The Truck 'Drivin' Man '. "This was tons of famous musicians over the years including George carried out byHamilton IV, Red Steagall, Glen Campbell, David Allan Coe, Commander Cody, and many, many more.
3. "Six Days on the Road," Carl Montgomery and Earl Green, 1963
One of the most eloquent writing songs about the life of a trucker "Six Days on the Road" covers the back issues of boredom, despair, desire, and again. During the tests the narrator to stay awake and avoid the omnipresent police, the bottom line is that he misses his girlfriend at home: "Well, it seems to me a monthI kissed my baby goodbye / I could have many wives, but I'm not like some other guys / I found that I took, but I could not believe it's really / Six days on the road and I 'll go home tonight. "Made famous by Dave Dudley, is covered by Taj Mahal, Boxcar Willie, George Thorogood and my favorite, The Flying Burrito Brothers.
4. "Looking at the world through a windshield," Jerry and Mike Hoyer Fuchs, 1967
As a father his son. ThisNumber was written from the perspective of a boy raised his father lost his truck-driving, but now we are in the same. As an adult truck driver finally understands his father's Wanderlust: "I am now on the world through a windshield / and see everything in a light bit 'different / I have a little' sweet thing I'm wantin 'to see in Nashville And I'm up in Dallas and a'rollin 'fast tonight. "This was the modern Sovine, Son Volt, TobyWalker.
5. "Phantom 309" Red Sovine, 1967
This melody nicely illustrates the power of urban folklore. A similar story was over and over again, through films, stories and songs tell of course. Relaying the disturbing, but the story that warms the heart of Big Joe the truck driver who saved his life as he weaves the lives of children lost in an accident determines Sovine a mysterious story of infestation for good. It seems that each year around the time of his death, Big Joe hits the floor and makeweary travelers to their favorite station, "But from time to time, some come from hiker'll / And what you give, Big Joe'll em 'a run' See another cup and forget the cents / keep as a souvenir Big Joe and Phantom 309! "This story has an active life after death, in the company of Boxcar Willie, Dave Dudley found, and, more recently, Tom Waits.
6. "White Line Fever," Merle Haggard, 1969
Like most supply Haggard, this is Workin 'Man's Song a real one. He describes theWorld truck as a disease, even though almost everything that will not heal anytime soon: "The years keep flyin 'by like poles Highline / evidence from my forehead the miles behind me / I still remember what you have I have time growin 'old / Guess I'll die with this fever in my soul. "The real way Rager has covered a variety of styles, the likes of Motörhead, The Flying Burrito Brothers and John Mayall.
7. "Truck Stop Girl", Lowell George and BillPayne, 1970
And what about women on the street? A common theme throughout the songs of the truck, is the power of women in general, and the woman keeps the house and are a distant object of affection or the waitress at the truck stop. This song is the second, and succinctly capture what young people feel lonely and a truck: "He was the man doing all he could / Above all, he had the integrity / But he was so young / and run ten cities / In love with a Truck StopGirls. "Although originally from Little Feat and The Byrds back in the day made this piece a sexy and feminine decidingly Facelift by Kelly Willis in 1996 was given.
8. "Truckin '" Grateful Dead, 1970
In view of psychedelics and, ahem, challenging the sixties and seventies, it is difficult to say whether "Truckin '" is actually driving the truck. However, it is a fun song and a little piece of America, according to the legends of cities across the country from Chicago to New York NewOrleans. This is another track where the goal is to return home, where the narrator is: "Truckin 'home, I'ma goin' / Baby Whoa Whoa, back to the point / belong Back home, sit down and my patch bones, and return Truckin 'on / Hey back Truckin' home. "recovery" at home "may be from a mental condition as a real place, but hey, this is a fun song to sing together.
9. "Drivin 'My Life Away, Eddie Rabbit, 1980
In the seventies and eighties, enjoyed country music singer Eddie Rabbitits share of crossover success. This song was a trucker-savvy kind of songs on the pop charts at number five with clock and no doubt helped him win an American Music Award the following year. Rabbitt infectious chorus of "ooh I'm Drivin 'My Life Away / search of a better way for me / Ooh, I'm Drivin' My Life Away / Searching for a sunny day, with carefully placed harmonies and catchy beats make a blog song hard to get out of my head.
10. "Mama was a rock (dad was a Rolling Stone), BR5-49 and Kay Adams, 1996
The singer Kay Adams has presented a new vision of women as a young girl grows up to the reality of life Trucking. Honky-Tonk vocalization and increased pedal steel, Adams said: "Six days a week, Dad made a big rig Burnin 'Up the open road / No matter what the mother has pulled all known was the heaviest load / run Six hungry children can ride in a mobile home in a park outside the city / half mad if you did not get their> Man "Your honest and biting lyrics remind us of the importance of keeping the home fires, and the woman (or man) who is behind the driver of the truck.
Finally there are two honorary degrees, the truck or implied, for the love of the open road, even if it does not seem to be the topic. The first was originally written and recorded by country star Roger Miller in 1965, "King of the Road." Although the title is compelling, but it is a hymnon the nomadic lifestyle of the national rail system. The other, "On the Road Again" is one of the great contributions Willie Nelson on songwriting. It 'was written for the "Honeysuckle Rose" soundtrack and features Nelson's love for the tour. A bus will be considered as a truck, right?
Now, Breaker, Breaker, 10-4, we gonna roll this convoy music? Over and out!
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