Tag: singer-songwriters

Voices

More ‘Music to truck by’: Truckers Ken Freeman, Taylor Barker live

In addition to this year’s Trucker Talent Search contestants and other singer-songwriters, truckers Taylor Barker and Ken Freeman were conspicuous at GATS this past year with performances, including video excerpts of two here, on the stage at the truck parking area and at the Red Eye Radio stage and various exhibitor booths.

December 5, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: ’18 wheels and a dozen roses’ singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea and her new record

“Long Haul Paul” sits down with a trucking-country legend for a talk, in part, about her new “Pretty Bird” record: “In the end, we all become characters in a Kathy Mattea song. In three years, if I can tough it out, I will literally receive a gold watch at my own trucking job. …”

October 22, 2018

Channel 19

New vid from ‘Long haul Paul’ Marhoefer

Marhoefer’s “Odious Death of the Cracker King” tells the story of a fictional character in the title, which the trucker-songwriter describes as something of a composite of two men he’d known long ago, the “sons of outlaw bull haulers” both, plus a little of that mythic dirge treatment Marhoefer’s a master of.

January 6, 2018

Life

‘Trucker Country’ from singer-songwriter Erich McMann

Hear a preview track from a new disc of trucking-themed tuned from Chicago-area singer-songwriter Erich McMann.

December 12, 2014

Channel 19

Southeastern Regional truck show one month hence

Mid-America had to start somewhere. –owner-operator Ted Bowers, president of the American Truck Historical Society’s Smoky Moutains chapter The show about which Bowers had those thoughts for me is a joint venture with his ATHS chapter and several others in the Southeast, and it’s coming up quick: April 13-14 in Knoxville. Bowers made his comparison […]

March 11, 2012