Diesel songs?

[HoleshotHolset]

Clinton said it best: "This is among the best threads the Other forum has ever seen. "



I like to think that at least 50% of what I post or attempt to initiate is valuable... .



The other 50% is usually just me having fun..... and trying to make sure other folks are.



Matt

 

[bmoeller]

Brooks and Dunn- Independant Trucker

 

[SVazquez]

"Roll on big Momma" by Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley. I love when they go through everywhere they've been and what they've seen. All the Merle Haggard trucking (and traveling) songs. To me, it seems I enjoy the message in the songs about traveling not just in a rig but anything that gets you there. Which leads me to Bob Seger's "Roll me Away"

 

[DieselMinded]

OMG none of you have heard Diesel Smoke by Dave Dudley?!?!?!?

About a zillion times ... LOL... . its the back ground music on the bombers page on 3D give it a listen



http://www.3d.otisnet.net/the_bombers.htm

 

[fest3er]

From my small CD collection. Some of these tracks have been mentioned before in this thread. I always enjoyed this CD back when I was driving cross-country a lot.



UPC 0-12676-10282-7

"On the Road Again - 20 Great Truck Drivin' Hits"

1. Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
   
2. I'm a Truck - Red Simpson
   
3. Give Me Forty Acres - Willis Brothers
   
4. C. B. Savage - Rod Hart
   
5. Endless Black Ribbon - Tony Harris
   
6. 40 Miles of Bad Road - Duane Eddy
   
7. Man Behind the Wheel - George Morgan
   
8. How Fast Them Trucks Can Go - Claude Gray
   
9. Widow Maker - Jimmy Martin
   
10. California Turn-arounds - Jack Greene
    
11. Looking at the World Through a Windshield - Del Reeves
    
12. Gear Jammer & the Hobo - Johnny Bend and Red Sovine
    
13. Roll, Truck, Roll - Red Simpson
    
14. Truck Driver's Queen - Moore & Napier
    
15. Passing Zone Blues - Coleman Wilson
    
16. Truck Stop Cutie - Willis Brothers
    
17. Where's the Truck - Charlie Douglas and Dave Dudley
    
18. Rolaids, Doan's Pills and Preparation H - Dave Dudley
    
19. Jackson - Red Sovine & Jean Shepard
    
20. Convoy - Tommy Hill Music Festival

Other truckin' songs:

• Where's the Dress - Moe Bandy/Joe Stampley
  
• 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea

Other good drivin' music:

• All My Ex's Live in Texas - George Strait
  
• The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song) - George Jones
  
• Stroker Ace - Charlie Daniels
  
• Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels
  
• Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) - Willie Nelson

Johnny Cash, Hank Williams (Sr. ) and almost any C/C&W from before 1975 or so.



I have more, but 1/2 my collection is still in storage.

 

[wcaldwell]

How about "I love the girl wearing nothing but a smile and a towel in the picture on the billboard in the field by the big old highway"



Wayne

 

[Andy Perreault]

George Thorogood does the best remake of Dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road," in my opinion. Also, don't forget "Highway 49" by George Thorogood. The word "diesel" is not in the lyrics, but it's a good "road" song. It's nice to see there are some George Thorogood fans out there, but I can't believe that no one mentioned "Truck Drivin' Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd!!

Neil Young, one of my all-time favorites, has a great song; "Southern Pacific". Of course, it is about trains, but to hear "the mighty diesel whine" over his guitar is inspiration for a smoke-out.

~Chris

Chris, that is an awesome song! Do you know if they ever put that album ("Re-ac-tor", 1981) on CD? I downloaded that song off the internet, but I'd love to have the whole CD. I believe I saw that song on a Neil Young boxed set collection, but I wasn't about to pay that much money. To me, the long howling, descending note sounds like the cooling fans on the dynamic brakes when a train is going down a grade, trying to hold back the weight. I always liked that howling/whining sound.



BTW, here's the lyrics to that song:



Down the mountainside

To the coastline

Past the angry tide

The mighty diesel whines.



And the tunnel comes

And the tunnel goes

Round another bend

The giant drivers roll.



I rode the Highball

I fired the Daylight

When I turned sixty-five

I couldn't see right.



It was "Mr. Jones,

We've got to let you go

It's company policy

You've got a pension though. "



Roll on, Southern Pacific

On your silver rails

On your silver rails

Roll on, Southern Pacific

On your silver rails

Through the moonlight.



I put in my time

I put in my time

Now I'm left to roll

Down the long decline.



I ain't no brake man

Ain't no conductor

But I would be though

If I was younger.



Roll on, Southern Pacific

On your silver rails

On your silver rails

Roll on, Southern Pacific

Roll on, on your silver rails.



-

Andy