Yes, the theme to Smokey and the Bandit is included here, but that’s just the tip of the smoke stacks. Truckers’ mainstream popularity as lone wolves of the road peaked several decades ago. Let’s take ...

In January, Eric Church took a trip to the mountains of North Carolina and recorded 28 songs in 28 days. “We removed all of the barriers about what people think of the song,” Church said earlier this ...

The song was “Wreck on the Mountain Road,” recorded by the Red Fox Chasers in 1928, but such trivia is only a small part of what Uhlman's article addresses. He places trucker songs in the context of ...

Family creeps into just about every corner of Jason Isbell's beautifully cracked and crooked songs. So it's little surprise that a familial sensibility percolates during his first major tour since ...

It was “Truck Driver’s Blues,” performed by the Texas Wanderers and sung by piano player Moon Mullican and at other times by Cliff Bruner, said Todd Uhlman. He’s an assistant professor who’s ...

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. He died Friday in ...