DUDLEY, DAVE
(*1928)
DUDLEY, DAVE (b. Spencer, Wis., May 3, 1928) If one man can be credited with creating the TRUCK-DRIVIN' mystique, it would have to be Dave Dudley , whose 1963 recording Six Days on the Road single-handedly created a new genre of country song. He continued to wax odes to the big rigs through the 1960s and 1970s, adding to the repertoires of bar bands everywhere! Raised in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Dudley was given his first GUITAR by his dad when he was just eleven, but baseball was his life…