Give me some good trucker songs!

[sbatson]

Hey looking to put together some music and looking for some good ideas, tell me what you got.

[Oakdancer]

Assuming you want some good driving music and not just a collection of stuff with trucks referrenced in the lyrics. Here's a few to start you off:

Radar Love - Golden Earring

Highway To Hell - AC/DC

Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi

Highway Star - Deep Purple

Creeque Alley - Mamas and the Papas (kinda slow compared to the rest of these, but you need something to calm you down in traffic jams LOL)

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Blue Collar Man - Styx

Already Gone and Midnight Flyer - The Eagles

Dirty White Boy - Foreigner

Soul Man - The Blues Brothers

Additionally, almost anything by Bad Company, and if you absolutely MUST have an actual truck drivin' song in your collection, it's just gotta be 30,000 Pounds of Bananas by Harry Chapin - just don't let your wife listen to it before you make a trip through Scranton, PA! LOL

[vavega]

oakdancer!! you forgot life in the fast lane. :shock:

[Oakdancer]

oakdancer!! you forgot life in the fast lane. :shock:

Doh!

Mea culpa, that's another good one.

[GMAN]

There is nothing like the old trucking songs of the 1960's and 1970's. Convoy, Phantom 309 and East Bound and Down are three that come to mind.

[Fredog]

There is nothing like the old trucking songs of the 1960's and 1970's. Convoy, Phantom 309 and East Bound and Down are three that come to mind.

how about weird Al... driving a truck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqbndPrCrA

[GMAN]

That is just strange. :shock:

[Malaki86]

This is still one of my favorite YouTube vids...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxygo...eature=related

[Ironturkey]

Truck drivin SOB - Deadbolt
Voodoo trucker - Deadbolt

The CB song - Legendary shack shakers

[CaliTrucker]

Here's another song about truckers, or at least the truck anyways

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4GhQWeZSg9U

[Uturn2001]

You have the songs by Red Sovine like Teddy Bear among others that are some good old truckers songs.

Roll On by Alabama is another that comes to mind (though I must admit that one tends to choke me up.)

[Double R]

Here's another song about truckers, or at least the truck anyways

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4GhQWeZSg9U

That's from the Bob and Tom show. Very funny.

This is still one of my favorite YouTube vids...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxygo...eature=related

Very good find. One that all showed view.

how about weird Al... driving a truck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqbndPrCrA

NEVER and I repeate NEVER listen to any(especially that song) Weird Al well driving down the road. The truck behind you will think that you are drunk or sleepy beacuse you will not be able to hold it streight from laughing so hard.
Now blasting Amish Paridise as you go through Lancaster,PA(withh the windows down) on route 30 is another story .

As for trucking songs, you got many choices. Allot of the older country songs from the 60's and 70's were about trucking. I got alot of the songs off of Napster. Now if I want to really get down the road, a little Metallica, Megadeth, or Iron Maiden helps .

[sbatson]

Keep them coming guys I'm making a list so I can get some good Cds out of it.

[TruckerChris]

Some truckstop sell cd's by Joey Holiday. While some of the songs may be cheesy, there are some good songs. Check him out

[NotSteve]

Dead skunk in the middle of the road

[Kranky]

Disturbed - Down With The Sickness.

[Drew10]

Just about anything by Eddie Rabbit... "Drivin' my life away". A favorite.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cb97p9fGTts

This is Drivin' my life away by Rune Rudberg, exellent job....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3XPZ_M7PE&feature=related

[Double R]

Elmer Fuddpucker-Damn DOT
Look him up on YOUTUBE. I won't post the link because of the language.

[Kranky]

Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Know.

[headborg]

Well to have a real collection of trucking music,

you have to have the complete works of Red Sovine

Convoy-- by C.W. McCall

White Line Fever- Merle Haggard( the song not the movie(1975))

Jerry Reeves- Smokey & the Bandit
Del Reeves- Girl on the billboard(wearing nothing but a smile)
Dave Dudley-- How fast them trucks can go & others

Maggard Cletus- White Knight:

Down 75 or 85,
Or I-20 t'other way,
Turn your squelch to the right
And in the night
You'll hear some good buddy say,
"Breaker breaker,
Got a picture taker,
ol' Smokey's at forty three."

It's that Japanese toy,
The trucker's joy
That everybody calls CB.
Yeah, Citizen's Band, keeps you up to date
On fender benders and Tijuana taxis,
And all them bears out there. Flip flop.

Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife
On the list of the ten best things in life,
Your CB's gotta rate right around number four.
'Course beavers and hot biscuits and Merle Haggard
Come one, two, three, you know.

Well I was loaded down, coming outta Lake City;
I was checkin' out seat covers, young and pretty,
When all of a sudden there come a call
Over my CB, ringin' wall to wall,
Said clove her double nickels till you hit the ridge,
'Cause there's a Smokey picture taker t'other side of the bridge.

"Oh mercy, 'ppreciate that, good buddy;
What's your handle there, come on?
You got any county mounties out there prowlin', come on?"
And he said --

"Ten four...back door,
Put the peddle to the metal and...let it roar
Hammer down...to Macon town...
Gonna see my momma...sure.
Well, the bears are gone,
Let's...bring it on...
The Georgia line's...out of sight.
Pulled outta Richmond town last Saturday night,
And my handle is...the White Knight,
How 'bout it?"

"All right, White Knight, hammer down,
You got the mean machine here."
I was a streakin'
My needle was a peakin'
A right around seventy nine.
That old diesel juice
Was a gettin' loose,
And everything was fine.
But wall to wall
I got a call
Front door, big bear trapper.
Said, "Break one nine,
Good buddy of mine,
You got a Smokey in a plain white wrapper."

Well I jammed my stick,
I lost twenty quick;
You could hear them gears a tearin'.
I got passed by a beaver,
And a Camaro,
I was cruisin' alone
And going so slow
I could count every button on that frilly blouse she was wearin'.

'Course there weren't but one.

"Hey there, super trooper!
Yeah -- that's the crafty Smokey over there with a CB of his own.
Hey White Knight, let's slide one on the super trooper, come on?"

"Ten four, back door.
Put the peddle to the metal, whatcha...waitin' for?
That old flop
Can't stay in sight,
Gonna leave you here and say no more,
How 'bout it?"

"Whoa, now, buddy, that's fightin' talk,
I'd get up there and blow your doors off!"

Well I hammered down like I had wings,
Little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, ping.
'Bout the time I hit ninety-two,
Saw something flashing' in my rear view.
Thought to myself that can't be true,
But there it was, old blue, blue, blue.

Uh oh. Bubble gum machine done hit the jackpot.

Well I could see that bear, laughing big,
Hangin' in tight on the back of my rig.
Right there and then it came to be wall to wall.
Mm-hmm.

So in that cold dark Georgia night,
In the shadows of Smokey bear's blue light,
I 'cided to make me just one more CB call.

"Breaker one nine for the super trooper,
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm right,
Are you my front door? Are you the White Knight? Come on?"
And he said --

"Ten four, back door.
You're in a heap of trouble boy...that's for sure.
Gonna read you your rights, and treat you fair.
Pull over there,
With your...rockin' chair.
Want you boys to know each other real well,
'Cause you gonna be sharin' the same jail cell.
You make twelve cotton pickers I've caught tonight,
From the front door of that White Knight.
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
How 'bout it?
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
Forty miles over the speed limit!
You boys gonna be here a spell.
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!
Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!"

That's it, cotton pickers, I've done been grounded;
My tail's in jail, my rig impounded.
So when you're comin' through the Georgia night,
Don't ever get no front door called the White Knight.

No sir. Wind up in the pokey with Smokey.
I'm gonna pull that old CB thing out by the wires.
I don't care if it is
_______________________________________________
Alabama

George Stait - Amarillo By Morning

the outlaws- Willie & Waylon & Kris

Johnny Cash

Yeah, I like to add: Prisoner of the Highway
Whitesnake- drifter born to walk alone
Bon Jovi
U2
Dire Straits
AC/DC
Def Leppard
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Bob Segar

Little Brother Trucker