TRUCK DRIVING SONGS

TRUCK DRIVING SONGS Three subjects have become stereotypes of country songwriting: mother, prison, and trucks. The image of the lone trucker blazing a path through the wilderness has replaced the COWBOY in American folklore as the last hero of the blacktop frontier. An explosion of songwriting from the early 1960s through the CB craze of the 1970s helped make this myth into a subgenre of country music. Cliff Bruner 's recording of Truck Driver's Blues from 1939, with a vocal by MOON MULLICAN…