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:
Carole With an E
Convoy
Teddy Bear
Six Days On The Road
Truck Driving Woman
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
East Bound and Down
Hello, I'm A Truck
A Tombstone Every Mile
Truck Stop Cutie
Truck Driver's Blues
Endless Black Ribbon
Beaver on My Back, Bear on My Tail
There Ain't No Easy Run
Truck Driving Mother
Truck Driver's Lament
White Line Fever
Truck Driving Man
Travelin' Man
Little Joe
The Bridge Washed Out
Big Footed Dan
Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
Long Haul Weekend
Gear Shiftin'
Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe
Little Ole Model A
Phantom 309
The Girl on the Billboard
Gooseball Brown
Truck Drivin' Buddy
Sleeper, Five-By-Two
Me and Ole C.B.
Eighteen Wheels A Rolling
Giddy Up Go
I've Been Everywhere
The Bull and The Beaver
California Turnarounds
Truck Drivin' Outlaw
Truck Driving Woman
The Legend
Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel
Give Me Forty Acres
Overloaded Diesel
C.B. Savage
Diesel Drivin' Donut Dunkin' Dan
Caffeine, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)
Green Truck Driver's First Experience With Radar
Movin' On
Roll, Truck, Roll
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