![]() ![]() The Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’” and Little Feat’s “Willin’” (both 1970 releases), as well as Deep Purple’s “Space Truckin’” (1972), blended trucker imagery and folksy apostrophes with references to drug culture. ![]() Trucker music’s profile rose at the same time psychedelic rock reached its peak, with the same artists often contributing to both trends. Truck driving music even spread overseas: it showed up in Australia in tunes like “Lights on the Hill” (1972) by Aussie cowboy Slim Dusty. By the late 1960s there was enough trucker music scattered across country albums that it had spawned its own sub-subgenres, like tragic trucker songs exemplified in Red Sovine’s supernatural thriller “Phantom 309” (1967) and Dick Curless’s “A Tombstone Every Mile” (1965). Its roots go back at least as far as the 1950s with the release of Terry Fell’s “Truck Drivin’ Man,” re-recorded by Buck Owens in 1965. Trucker music is a subgenre of country music. It’s a buddy film, a road movie, a romantic comedy, a heist film… Yet it is also distinctly of its era, blending two specific 1970s phenomena: trucker music and fuel-shortage-fueled (pun intended) fantasies about high-speed driving. When it came out in 1977, Smokey and the Banditcontinued a lot of film traditions. ![]()
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