Playlist
The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs
By Jof Owen
From Dave Dudley to Red Sovine and from Kathy Mattea to Brennen Leigh, we've gathered together 50 of the finest in our playlist of The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs
By Jof Owen
From Dave Dudley to Red Sovine and from Kathy Mattea to Brennen Leigh, we've gathered together 50 of the finest in our playlist of The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs
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Got your ears on? Then keep the rubber side down and the bugs off your glass and get your eyeballs on this.
With their single ‘Truck Driver’s Blues’, Cliff Bruner and His Boys’ are often credited with the first ever truck-driving country song when it came out all the way back in 1939. But it was President Eisenhower's administration that introduced the interstate highway system and ushered in the golden age of trucker country in the mid-1960s as commercial long haul truck drivers and the lives they lead out on the road became the new pioneers of the West.
The curious country sub-genre boomed again in the 1970s with the crossover success of CW McCall's 'Convoy' and Jerry Reed's 'East Bound and Down', as truck drivers became unlikely American folk heroes.
We've gathered together 50 of the finest, from Dave Dudley to Red Simpson and Red Sovine to Dick Curless and Kathy Mattea, in our playlist of The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs.
Wind ‘er up, good buddy and let ‘er go! We’ll see y’all on the flip side. Over.
Check out the full tracklist below:
Brennen Leigh
Carole With an E
C.W McCall
Convoy
Red Sovine
Teddy Bear
Dave Dudley
Six Days On The Road
Norma Jean
Truck Driving Woman
Kathy Mattea
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Jerry Reed
East Bound and Down
Red Simpson
Hello, I'm A Truck
Dick Curless
A Tombstone Every Mile
Willis Brothers
Truck Stop Cutie
Cliff Bruner
Truck Driver's Blues
Tiny Harris
Endless Black Ribbon
Red Simpson
Beaver on My Back, Bear on My Tail
Dave Dudley
There Ain't No Easy Run
Stella Parton
Truck Driving Mother
Johnny Dollar
Truck Driver's Lament
Merle Haggard
White Line Fever
Dick Nolan
Truck Driving Man
Dick Curless
Travelin' Man
Red Sovine
Little Joe
Warner Mack
The Bridge Washed Out
Benny Martin
Big Footed Dan
Red Simpson
Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
Willis Brothers
Long Haul Weekend
Pete Drake
Gear Shiftin'
C.W. McCall
Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe
Buzz Martin
Little Ole Model A
Red Sovine
Phantom 309
Del Reeves
The Girl on the Billboard
Lonnie Irving
Gooseball Brown
Frankie Miller
Truck Drivin' Buddy
Red Simpson
Sleeper, Five-By-Two
Dave Dudley
Me and Ole C.B.
Betty Amos
Eighteen Wheels A Rolling
Red Sovine
Giddy Up Go
Johnny Cash
I've Been Everywhere
Merle Haggard
The Bull and The Beaver
David Allan Coe
California Turnarounds
Dennis Olson
Truck Drivin' Outlaw
Philomena Begley
Truck Driving Woman
Jerry Reed
The Legend
Red Sovine
Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel
Jim & Jesse
Give Me Forty Acres
Jimmy Griggs
Overloaded Diesel
Rod Hart
C.B. Savage
Willis Brothers
Diesel Drivin' Donut Dunkin' Dan
Jerry Reed
Caffeine, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)
Coleman Wilson
Green Truck Driver's First Experience With Radar
Merle Haggard
Movin' On
Red Simpson
Roll, Truck, Roll
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