This week’s edition of Overdrive Radio starts with a brief part of "Truck Stop," earmarked by today's guest for a special place in his heart the last time we hosted him. That'd be trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, who back then in 2023 spoke to the inspiration the song took from Justice’s mother’s long work at a couple of different East Tennessee truck stops you’ll hear him mention in today’s podcast.
Yet it’s with a bit of heavy heart, here, that we get this edition rolling, given Sharon Justice passed in November last year. It’s no small number of truck drivers -- and one trucking magazine editor at least -- that were touched by her life, that’s sure, Tony Justice and his late father chief among them.
"She felt like she was still taking care of dad," Justice said, noting how much Momma J, as she was known to so many, loved the work she did over the last nearly two decades of her life. "You wouldn't find a cleaner shower on the interstate, or a more warming smile to meet you when you walked into the door."
Fellow trucker-songwriter Bill Weaver, Justice said, summed it up best, once noting he didn't "know anyone who was called Momma by so many different people."
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Dive into a conversation with Justice that touches on plans for the big show with Colt Ford at MATS March 28, the Justices' huge Large Cars & Guitars Truck Show event in East Tennessee in May (at a new location this year), and the legacy of Momma J, the late Sharon Justice.
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