Country truck driving is a sub-genre of country and western music. Characterized by poetic content and truck industry experience about trucks (i.e. commercial vehicles, not pickup trucks), truck drivers or truck drivers. This is, for example, truck stops, CB (Citizens Group) radio, geography, drugs, crews, roads, weather, fuel, law enforcement, cargo, traffic, ICC (Interstate Trade Commission), contraband, DOT (Department Transport), accidents etc. [1] In the country using trucks, references to "truck" include the following types of trucks: 10-wheeler, flat-truck, 18-wheeler, tractor (short tail), semi-trailer, semi-trailer, large rig, and others.
Often mixed with road music (eg Willie Nelson "On the Road Again", Roger Miller "King of the Road"), pickup music (eg Toby Keith "Big Ol 'Truck) and / or truck driving music. Last category, most of them. It will be the trucker 'preferred choice for eclectic listening while driving / operating trucks of all types, brands and types.
This is, at least in part, an oral history of trucking. A number of social and economic factors in the United States strongly influenced the truck driving country's evolution as a sub-genre of "country" music. These factors include wars, civil rights struggles, demographic change from rural to urban areas, the feminist movement, economic recessions, changes in the railways, and the oil embargo. Its effects diversified the folklore of truck songs. [2nd]
However, technological advances and changes in both the music industry and the trucking industry have brought the biggest changes in the trucking country. Variously these include jukebox, 33 vinyl rpm vinyl record albums, 8-channel tape, cassette, transistor to digital revolution, Internet, CB radio, all-night radio broadcasts targeting truckers, Interstate highways and multi-truck components (sleeper cabs, air suspension, power steering, synchronized gearboxes, air conditioning, air seats and electronics). [3]
Collectively, there are over 500 truck driver country songs that come from the more or less verbal tradition of truck folklore. Of course professions have traditionally been the raw material and inspiration for folk music in the United States, also influenced by regional culture (e.g. riverboat, mining, Great Lakes water trade, logging, cowboy, railroad, agricultural fieldwork, and others). . [4] Folk songs adopt, adapt and combine colloquial language, slang and professional terms into verbal snapshots. In the trucking country, special words and terms such as truck rodeo, dog house, twin screw, Georgia overdrive, saddle tanks, brake brake, binder and others borrowed from the language of truck drivers are widely used. [5] CB vocabulary, which is different from truck driver language [6], is used by both truckers and the general public. Some of this vocabulary turned into popular culture and then entered the truck driving country (eg "Hit with a hammer", "shaky town", "smoky" and "pedal to metal")
