Release Date: 03 September, 1996
Audio CD
Tracks
- Truck Driving Man - Don Walser
- Will There Be Big Rigs in Heaven - Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
- Nitro Express - Junior Brown
- Miss Marie & The Bedford Blaze - Marty Stuart
- Truck Stop Girl - Kelly Willis
- Mother Trucker - Shaver
- Looking at the World Through a Windshield - Son Volt
- Diesel, Diesel, Diesel - Jim Lauderdale
- Wagon of Clay - Cheri Knight
- White Freight Liner Blues [Live] - Steve Earle
- Highway Junkie - The Yayhoos
- Semi-Truck - Bill Kirchen
- Mama Was a Rock (Daddy Was a Rolling Stone) - Kay Adams
- I'm Coming Home - Nick Lowe
- Truck Drivin' Man (Give It All I Can) [Live] - The Bottle Rockets
- Six Days on the Road
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Rating 5.0
Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Trucker's FavoritesOne way to escape the cheesy pop that passes for today's country music is to listen to some truck drivin' tunes that speak to the blue collar roots of real country music. This fine collection contains a number of classics updated by contemporary artists as well as tunes by the original artists. Highlights of this CD are Junior Brown's collaboration with the great Red Simpson on Red's classic "Nitro Express" which is as good as their collaboration on "Semi-Crazy" from the album by the same name. The Yayhoos update the genre with their raucous take on "Highway Junkie" while Bill Kirchen gears it up on "Semi-Truck." The songs by the women seem weaker to me because truck driving tunes just sound better when sung by a man. These songs tend to fall into the I'm-left-all-alone-while-my-man-is-on-the-road category like Kay Adams "Mama Was a Rock." But that's a minor quibble. Get yourself this collection of truck driving CDs for your next long road trip; it'll make the hours on the freeway fly by. Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Trucker's FavoritesOne way to escape the cheesy pop that passes for today's country music is to listen to some truck drivin' tunes that speak to the blue collar roots of real country music. This fine collection contains a number of classics updated by contemporary artists as well as tunes by the original artists. Highlights of this CD are Junior Brown's collaboration with the great Red Simpson on Red's classic "Nitro Express" which is as good as their collaboration on "Semi-Crazy" from the album by the same name. The Yayhoos update the genre with their raucous take on "Highway Junkie" while Bill Kirchen gears it up on "Semi-Truck." The songs by the women seem weaker to me because truck driving tunes just sound better when sung by a man. These songs tend to fall into the I'm-left-all-alone-while-my-man-is-on-the-road category like Kay Adams "Mama Was a Rock." But that's a minor quibble. Get yourself this collection of truck driving CDs for your next long road trip; it'll make the hours on the freeway fly by. AMAZON.COM Has The Greatest Truckdrivin CD Of All-Time!!This album is the best thing that has ever happened to truckdrivers since coffee and rest stops. Rig Rock Deluxe captures the feelings, plights of courage, and comradere of the unsung american hero- The Truckdriver. This album explores issues of the "absent husband syndrome" in a jammin song by Kay Adams and BRS-59, and existential spiritual questions that we all ponder as we trek across the open road, "Will There Be Big Rigs in Heaven" by Buck Owens and His Buckaroos. A great must hear album. Makes a great gift for anyone who has driven over eight hours to get somewhere. Check it out! |
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