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Truck-driving country or trucker country is a subgenre of country and western music. It is characterized by lyrical content about trucks (i.e. commercial vehicles , not pick-up trucks ), truck drivers or truckers, and the trucking industry experience.
Over his career Slim Dusty recorded 80 plus original Aussie 'trucking' songs and his six standalone trucking albums achieved sales well in excess of half a million copies. [1] In March 2007, a 3-disc Slim Dusty compilation titled Pubs, Trucks & Plains was released which peaked at number 20 onto ARIA Charts and was certified gold. This single ...
A full-length version of the song was released as a single in 1975, and it topped the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July. [1] In addition to serving as the main theme to Movin' On, the song was among many in country music to pay homage to the American over-the-road truck driver.
All boy moms and boy dads can agree that having a son is quite the life-changing experience—an experience that can be best described in heartfelt country songs.Yes, there are country songs out ...
1. ‘Longhaired Redneck’ – David Allan Coe (1976) Most of David Allan Coe’s discography consists of songs for everyone’s inner outlaw biker, and 1976’s “Longhaired Redneck” is no ...
Birge's song acts as a counterpoint to Chambers' video, which parodies country music by singing "beer beer, truck truck, girls in tight jeans". [5] The song narrates a man trying to convince his love, who moved to the city, that life in the American countryside "ain't all beer, beer, truck, truck, girls in them tight jeans". [3] [5]
"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" is a song written by Dave Loggins, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in January 1984 as the first single and title track to the band's album Roll On. It was the group's 12th straight No. 1 single on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart. [2]
The song's main theme is the narrator waking up in the bed of his truck after becoming intoxicated, and expressing his anger at his situation. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country wrote, "one doesn't feel Hardy's fury until the very last chorus in this song, when a full-throttled electric guitar replaces the gentler version that had been plucking along as he tells of getting blackout drunk in the ...