Overdrive

'I call it trucker soul': Introducing Taj Wallace, aka Supa Trucka, bending ears with new music

North Carolina-based independent Taj Wallace, known on the CB and to his fans as the “Supa Trucka,” splashed on the truck ...
Overdrive

First recorded trucking song explores familiar theme: Death on the highway

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Eric Church Mixes Female Empowerment With Truck Songs in New ‘Bad Mother Trucker’

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 ...
Vox

How trucker country music became a ’70s fad

“Ah, breaker one-nine / This here’s the Rubber Duck / You got a copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon?” This jumble of words is the first line of the song “Convoy,” a No. 1 country hit from 1976 that tells an ...
The Economist

An all-American industry changes the all-American way

SURJIT KHAN’S “Truck Union” is part of a new crop of trucker songs hitting America’s highways. Like the 1970s classics, Mr Khan’s ditty is all blue jeans, work boots and American-dream fulfilment.