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Almost literally, actually. He sings truck driving songs. Though updated somewhat they’re definitively country and in the mode of Dave Dudley, Red Simpson and Dick Curless.
And quarantine offers the perfect opportunity to partake. Not surprisingly, many truck-driving country songs glamorize the amorous adventures of truckers with a girl in every town.
I like a good truck-driving song. Was “Convoy” a good truck-driving song? Your artistic mileage may vary, but in terms of commercial success, “Convoy,” released in 1975 at the height of ...
Dave Dudley, the country music singer regarded by many as the "father of truck driving songs," has died.
Red Simpson, Bakersfield musician and Dust Bowl migrant whose 1971 country hit "I'm a Truck" helped propel a national enthusiasm for romantic truck-driving lore, has died.
Lee Brice and his hit song 'I Drive Your Truck were big winners for Song of the Year at the 2014 ACM Awards.
When the songwriting team of Connie Harrington, Jessi Alexander and Jimmy Yeary finished "I Drive Your Truck," they knew this wasn't an ordinary song. It wasn't even an ordinary hit song. It was ...
Bakersfield Sound pioneer Red Simpson, a country "truck driving" singer, had died at 81.