New transport series alert. Not buses (sorry Ernie ) but trucks!
Plenty of Country numbers as I'm sure you can imagine. Let's start with Gotta Keep Truckin' from the album No Particular Way by the Ponderosa Aces featuring our good friend Jonny the Friendly Lawyer on bass.
The Aces are followed by Kissinger with a song which will be resurrected should I ever get round to doing a bike series.
I think that it will be in order to include Truckstops as part of this series so today's post will conclude with the title track from Lindi Ortega's album Cigarettes and Truckstops.
After a leisurely rest at the truckstop we will be hitting the road again same time next week.
Keep on Truckin!
The Ponderosa Aces - Gotta Keep Truckin'
Lindi - Ortega - Cigarettes & Truckstops
I think this series might consist largely of country songs.
ReplyDeleteIf Convoy doesn't feature at some point, I'm taking my bat home.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I hope you carry this on for another 11 months, so you can include Trucking Trees For Christmas by Red Simpson - a perennial favourite in my house.
If I get to the end of March I'll be doing well!
DeleteTruckin' hell, CC! (well, someone had to go there, it might as well be me)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this even if it turns out to be a shortlived series. Can I put in an early plea, even though it's stretching the theme somewhat for Faron Young (Truckin' Mix) by Prefab Sprout?
To balance the scale-tipping surfeit of country songs, I'd also recommend these little ditties:
What It Is: Garnet Mimms & Truckin' Company
Keep On Truckin: Eddie Kendricks
The Power Of Independent Trucking: Big Black
Now I'm off to YouTube to see if anyone has uploaded old episodes of BJ And The Bear...
BJ & The Bear! Classic TV.
DeleteI'm with Rol for his Red Simpson plea and I also humbly submit A Truck Stop Christmas (BRS-49) and Santa's Trucker (Wayne Mayfield)
ReplyDeleteSome non-country suggestions, including a couple of dancey things:-
ReplyDeleteTruck Train Driver - The Pastels
The Truck-Driver and His Mate - Pet Shop Boys
Truck - HiFi Sean (ft. Fred Schneider)
The World's First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip - Arctic Monkeys
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
The last of the above is quite minimalist and really has nowt' to do with trucking as far as I can make out.
Here's a countrified suggestion....you might not know it as it was an extra track on a CD single
The Rockingbirds - Time Drives The Truck
And finally......
Ballboy - Dumper Truck Racing