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Eric Jaeger
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Oakland, California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 2:29 pm |
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OK, with Mike's post and mine on Bill Kirchen, the thought arises... what are your votes for the best truck driving songs?
My votes:
Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
Nitro Express
Roll Truck Roll
I'm a Truck - all Red Simpson
I'm Coming Home - Johnny Horton
Semi-Truck - Commander Cody
Truck Driving Man - (way to many to list)
I'm Moving On - Hank Snow
Looking at the World Through a Windshield - ?
Give Me 40 Acres - Willis Brothers
Truckin' - (the Grateful Dead, and I couldn't resist)
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 2:42 pm
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I Love "I'm A Trucker" by Johnny Russell! 
Kind Regards, Walter
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 2:46 pm
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The Girl On The Billboard...
Then there's one about Maine highways with the lyrics "If they buried every trucker that's been lost in them woods there'd be a tombstone every mile"... but I cannot remember the name of said ditty. |
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Eric Jaeger
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Oakland, California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 2:59 pm
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Ray, that would be "Tombstone Every Mile"  I have a version by Bill Kirchen, but I don't know who recorded it first.
-eric |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 3:06 pm
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"Tombstone Every Mile" by Dick Curless is the one you're thinking of. That's #2 for me, but "Six Days on the Road" has to be my #1.
I'll take any of those, but add
White Line Fever - Merle Haggard
White Freightliner Blues - Townes van Zandt
Long, Lonesome Highway - Dick Curless
Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed
King of the Open Road - Red Sovine
18 Wheels A-Rollin' - Betty Amos
Open Road - instrumental by Joe Maphis
and let's not forget
Big Bertha the Truck Driving Queen - Gary Stewart's is the version I'm familiar with
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Jim Hartley
From:
SC/TN
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 3:07 pm
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Eric,
"Windshield" was a big Del Reeves hit from the late 60's as was "Girl on the Billboard" that Ray mentioned. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 3:09 pm
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| Don't know who wrote it but "Looking at the World..." is Del Reeves (primary attribution). Did it in a former band---I worked up a steel intro derived from the Reeves version's twin (or triple) guitar intro. |
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Barbara Hennerman
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 3:13 pm
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White Line Fever - Merle Haggard |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 3:33 pm
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"Motivatin' Man" by Red Simpson
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 4:00 pm
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Doesn't anyone remember "The Girl In The Little Pink Mack" by Kay Adams? 
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Larry Strawn
From:
Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 7:08 pm
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Uh huh Herb,,,
I sure do remember it!
Larry
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Bob Ritter
From:
pacfic, wa
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 7:27 pm
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roll on big ma ma.....or the one with the cripple boy talking on the cb and the truckers give him a ride.......The number one song and look boys it is not even close imho...Jr, Brown Semi Crazy....yeah
18 wheeler. by Alabama is worth mentioning..look how many Albums it sold.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 7:56 pm
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| the one with the cripple boy talking on the cb and the truckers give him a ride |
"Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine. A total, complete tearjerker.
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Ron Castle
From:
West Hurley,NY
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 8:01 pm
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| "wolf creek pass" and "fanthom 309" |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 8:59 pm
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My Favorite is Commander Cody's "Mama Hated Deisels"
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Randy Phelps
From:
California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 9:14 pm i'd add
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boy, these are all favorites of mine....
I'll add one. a lesser known track by John Stewart
18 Wheels it is M4A |
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Kelly Hydorn
From:
Spokane
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 10:03 pm
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| Phantom 309 has to be there close to the top, and just about any of the trucker songs Red Simpson did with Leo LeBlanc on steel would be up there too. Six days on the Road and Tombstone every Mile as well. That would trip my trigger. Bring them steels up here to Montana I'll make them all black, since they sound better you know. |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2007 10:49 pm
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Big Footed Dan........ I gotta baby down in Caroline
When I think about 'er sorta chills my spine |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 4:45 am
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Either Dale Watson's "Good Luck, Good Truckin' Tonight" or "Flat Tire"...
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 4:53 am Don't forget these...
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"Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves" (Red Simpson)
"Highway-Man" (Dick Curless)
"Diesel On My Tail" (Jim and Jesse)
"Hello, I'm A Truck" (Red Simpson) 
Steve: Thanks for remembering Jimmy Martin's "Widow Maker". Here's a few of the words...
Just a few more miles and Bill was on that mountain range.
where dead ahead a pickup full of kids blocked both the lanes.
Bill hit the air and then he felt his trailer slide and sway,
and the pickup driver made no move to help him clear the way.
Widow Maker, Widow Maker, only Bill could understand,
was gonna make a widow out of pretty Wanda Ann.
He just had time to think of Wanda, as he fought the wheel.
Then Billy Mack was buried under twenty tons of steel.
One life for ten has always been a diesel driver's code.
That's why Billy swung that Widow Maker off the road.
Great song!
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 7:41 am
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 8:21 am
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| The White Knight! By Cledus Maggard and the Citizen's Band. |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 8:25 am
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A great (but fairly obscure one) by Gary Stewart:
"Caffeine, Nicotine and Benzedrine"
"Hey little waitress
make my coffee strong
A pack of king-size filters
and a country song
A little box of "whites"
to help keep me up...
Caffeine, nicotine and benzedrine...
and wish me luck...
From an early MCA album (released to cash in on his mid seventies success on RCA I think). Never a single I don't think; I wonder why? |
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Greg Simmons
From:
where the buffalo (used to) roam AND the Mojave
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Posted 2 Feb 2007 8:59 am
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Don't forget Little Feat's "Willin'" with the one and only Sneaky Pete Kleinow on Steel
"And I been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin"
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