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Cast your final vote for the top trucking song of all time

July 7, 2011

You will recall I asked for top trucking song nominations oh a couple-few weeks back. Well, from said nominations, I took the top ten contenders, those with the most mentions, ...

Colorful codriver, trucking blues, health care reform and more in this month’s Truckers News

May 24, 2010

If you've missed the May edition of Truckers News on the racks out at the truckstops this month (I know copies in the more popular stops tend to go quickly), ...

Watermelon Slim’s on-the-road ‘Escape From the Chicken Coop’

March 8, 2010

Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And "I was an above-average harp player," he says of his early years making ...

Watermelon Slim performs the blues

March 8, 2010

Former trucker Bill Homans performed in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Watermelon Slim – on the road again with a killer sound

March 7, 2010

It’s not every day that we trucking editors get a private lunchtime concert, but such was the case Friday here at the offices of Overdrive and Truckers News. Former trucker ...
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