Roll, truck, roll [sound recording] / Red Simpson.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 72435-78509-2-6 | Sundazed MusicPublication details: Coxsackie, NY : Sundazed Music, p2004.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): | Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | COUNTRY Simpson, Red | Available | 33111004365181 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Red Simpson's first album of truck songs is a classic, and a fresh, rousing, unpretentious look at the joy, adventure, and loneliness of the road. The title song, authored by Tommy Collins, is the best and most serious song here, with a lot of heart in the writing and in the performance by Simpson -- who speaks part of it with an honesty that a lot of actors would kill to capture in their work -- and it was a Top 40 country hit. Not everything here comes close to the complexity of that number -- there might to one too many songs about drivin' big ol' trucks wherever -- but numbers like "Nitro Express" and (natch) "Six Days on the Road" keep a good beat, and "Truck Driver's Blues," living up to its promise, is a slow honky-tonk number. Hearing this record again after a lot of years, one is sort of sorry that Red Simpson never got together with, say, Commander Cody on an album. ~ Bruce Eder
Compact disc.
Originally released on Capitol Records in 1966.
Truck drivin' man -- Roll, truck, roll -- Nitro express -- Give me forty acres -- Happy go lucky truck driver -- Highway man -- Motivatin' man -- Truck driver's blues -- Big Mack -- My baby's waitin' -- Six days on the road -- Runaway truck.
Red Simpson.