Trucker Music

[Penderic]

Eddie Rabbit --- "Driving My Life Away"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvEvBUG8mY

[Penderic]

You took a fine time to leave me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIn6gMlo6A
 

[Guzzistajohn]

I'm no trucker, but I do like the music. Personally I like Junior Brown's take on the truckin' theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlcWvVYItA

[Guzzistajohn]

You took a fine time to leave me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIn6gMlo6A
 

Nice stuff

[Scott DeRoss]

this one https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=581&q=jerry+reed+east+bound+and+down&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3MMwryE2OVwKz09OM0kritcSyk630c0uLM5P1E4tKMotLrIrz89KLHzEGcgu8_HFPWMpj0pqT1xiduHAoFNLgYnPNK8ksqRSS4-KTQrJGg0GKhwuJzwMAXRQyRYYAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMl6iSqaLKAhWBdSYKHd86ARsQri4IHQ

or this https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjq-9vkqKLKAhXC2SYKHdStCpQQ3ywIfDAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSd5ZLJWQmss&usg=AFQjCNHqSGSkcnqBrAcX9dz2whxCkPD6uQ&sig2=4kg9FuILlNnZo82bK1WrxQ&bvm=bv.111396085,d.eWE

If you are an old cb'er like me and drove a truck here is a funny one you might remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh66kDox4R0

[Two Checks]

I'm no trucker, but I do like the music. Personally I like Junior Brown's take on the truckin' theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlcWvVYItA

That and Semi Crazy with Red Steagall.

Or Roll On by Dave Dudley.

[PJPR01]

Jerry Reed +1...every time I go thru Texarkana, that song is played as a tribute...good old Smokey and the Bandit!  Classic movies!

[Penderic]

I like the guitar and banjoe pickers on those road travelling country western songs ... never saw that Junior Brown group before! Thanks Guzzistajohn.

The Convoy and Vanishing point music themes were pop hits for a short while. CB radio was the high tech for the era. The chase is on!

There were other themes about road conditions and accidents that went popular for a while ..... remember Chaplins "Thousand pounds of Bananas"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hsbdw3Dhow


 

[Guzzistajohn]

I like the guitar and banjoe pickers on those road travelling country western songs ... never saw that Junior Brown group before! Thanks Guzzistajohn.

The Convoy and Vanishing point music themes were pop hits for a short while. CB radio was the high tech for the era. The chase is on!

There were other themes about road conditions and accidents that went popular for a while ..... remember Chaplins "Thousand pounds of Bananas"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hsbdw3Dhow


 

Junior's quite a picker and a good old Okie, That instrument he's playing is his own creation he calls a Guit-steel. He puts on a killer show. 

[Two Checks]

Junior Brown isn't the group's name, it's the front man's name.

[Guzzistajohn]

Junior also did the opening tune for the Jim Carey movie "Me myself and Irene"   Highway petrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M

[oldbike54]

Junior's quite a picker and a good old Okie, That instrument he's playing is his own creation he calls a Guit-steel. He puts on a killer show.

 Actually Junior is from AZ , although he does have ties to OK.

  Dusty

[geoff in almonte]

There were other themes about road conditions and accidents that went popular for a while ..... remember Chaplins "Thousand pounds of Bananas"?

That would be Chapin, Harry.  Chaplin was that little guy with the mustache and bowler.

I would rather remember Harry Chapin for some of his other story songs - like Sniper, Dog Town and Better Place To Be.

G

[Guzzistajohn]

Actually Junior is from AZ , although he does have ties to OK.

  Dusty

I stand corrected oh master of Wikipedia He just taught guitar @ Rogers state University.

[LowRyter]

I thought Junior was totally Texas and Austin. 

[Guzzistajohn]

I thought Junior was totally Texas and Austin.

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Pretty sure he gained his popularity playing in Austin. Played with Asleep at the Wheel for a time. How 'ya doin' Johnny?

[oldbike54]

I stand corrected oh master of Wikipedia He just taught guitar @ Rogers state University.

 We had this discussion before , heck , Jay believes he is an Arkie 

 

I thought Junior was totally Texas and Austin. 

 Nope , like so many things actually honed in Oklahoma , Texas gets the credit .

  Dusty
 
 

[kidsmoke]

Central Oklahoma is my land, it's my country,
Eastern Oklahoma is a beautiful sight.
Northern Oklahoma might as well be Kansas,
Never go to Southern Oklahoma at night...

Still good stuff comin' outta Oklahoma.


good stuff here lads.

[cruzziguzzi]

Having grown up in, under and intertwined with tractor trailer operation - I have a couple three classic favorites:
CW McCall of course but not the hit (most 'jammers can't stand "Convoy). Rather, "Wolf Creek Pass"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5A8COF_NYQ
"... Well, Earl grabbed on the shifter and he stabbed her into fifth gear and then the chromium-plated, fully-illuminated genuine accessory shift knob come right off in his hand. I says, "You wanna screw that thing back on, Earl?"

Another was dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road" though, of late, I'm prone to listen more to Steve Earle's version.

Loves me some driving tunes and driven tunes. My upbringing of course cross pollinated genres due to my tokin', gear pokin', "benny" popping - ain't no stoppin', older brothers.

Hush - Deep Purple
Radar Lover  - Golden Earring
Love is the Drug - Roxy Music
My Wife, Goin' Mobile - The Who
   So many more. The trail of past "mix tapes" boggles the mind.

Todd.

[pat80flh]

" And if you give me....
weed, whites, and wine,
and you show me a sign,
I'll be willin,
To be movin'.    "

[cruzziguzzi]

" And if you give me....
weed, whites, and wine,
and you show me a sign,
I'll be willin,
To be movin'.    "

Little Feat... Brother Brian would approve and it'd be found on tapes of his including The Band or Neil Young as he blasted through the night. Always an acoustical civil war in his tractor - Brian's. Loved his music but only the worst weather would keep his passenger window up for fear of any stifling of that single "straight" comin' off a non-turbo charged Cummins.

At any given time, the O'l Man would have one or two straight Cummins tractors. Much, if not near onto all, of my current appreciation for internal combustions effects - sonorous, can be traced to those 175, 225 and 250 horse Cummins lumps. It was the Ol' Man's special joy to be anywhere around town and hear one of his tractors return home by the rail trestle. All the drivers knew to strike the "Jake" on the home side (county Sheriff be damned) as a nod to Pop. The grandiloquent report of a straight stacked 250, hopefully loaded, in the middle of the night or of a lazy afternoon was rockin' sweet.

I recall one Sunday afternoon, blowing insulation in the attic with the Ol' Man. We hit a bag change so the blower was shut off and as we waited in the attic, Pop says "Hear that?" Of course, I did not and asks to what where he says: "Just listen, Little Steve's about to hit the trestle..." Sure as baby rabbits - on comes the Jake as it rattle-roars down the other side. Little Steve, in our '58 Autocar. Sat high and proud up front like the world's largest "Gasser" dragster.

Struck me then, strikes me still... Some sounds!

Trucker's music - not all of it comes from recording studios.


Todd.

[1Sourdough]

Sometime I just have to sit down and watch the whole movie:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRwQjTYfGI

[Guzzistajohn]

My OTHER favorite trucker music cat is a good Texan named Dale Watson, GREAT PICKER! and a HOT band. If you ever ger a chance to see him, do so!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y89-ZBmoR2s

[BigDave in PA]

Another was dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road" though, of late, I'm prone to listen more to Steve Earle's version.

+1

Here's another good one:Del Reeves / Girl On The Billboard  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaH0X7wQxN0

[JoeB]

Or Roll On by Dave Dudley.

+ on Dudley. Six Days on the Road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClnFbpbpUOA

Also like me some Jamie Brockett. Just Stopped by to get a cup of coffee now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypx0Ae8L4O4

[sib]

My idea of trucker music is Mamma Hated Diesels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNVF1F23oQ

[Cool Runnings]

Red Sovine - Truck Driver's Prayer 

[azguzzirep]

I like "Movin' On" mostly because it is sung by Merle Haggard .
My c.b handle back in the day was Machine Gun Kelly  (from the song by..hmmm, lemme think)
Tom , wait ! Cat Stevens ??

[Guzzistajohn]

Hey Sib, listen to this one. Bill Kirchen former member of the Lost Planet Airmen "Mr. Hot Rod Lincoln"
Playing "Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBHqpDX2fE


Or the late GREAT Buck Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nMvKxDFMuo

[azguzzirep]

I like "Movin' On" mostly because it is sung by Merle Haggard .
My c.b handle back in the day was Machine Gun Kelly  (from the song by..hmmm, lemme think)
Tom , wait ! Cat Stevens ??

Fixing it...JAMES  TAYLOR 😀

TOM