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Channel 19

Scenes from “Highway Angel” truck stop tour finale in Nashville

Video, pictures and more from the event, including the performance of Erin Flanigan, daughter in a long line of generations of owner-operators and drivers associated with Cincinnati-based Flanigan small fleet.

October 31, 2013

Channel 19

Shout-outs from Dallas, Nashville, via studios mobile and not so

2 p.m. Friday at GATS 2013, choices abound close to home — and more from the show and Tony Justice’s vocal session in Nashville earlier in the week…

August 22, 2013

Life

Wrestling diva carries country tunes

With the May release of “Somebody’s Gonna Pay,” pro wrestling’s Renaissance woman Mickie James goes big with musical pursuits.

July 1, 2013

Channel 19

Tony Justice: New record in the works, expanded distribution

Driver and songwriter Tony Justice plans a follow-up to his 2011 “On the Road” release, which is getting new distribution to Love’s, Wilco.

May 30, 2013

Channel 19

A trucking-music blast from the past

“Magic Lady” Genie Mack Brown of Prague, Okla., has reissued her 1980 trucking-music record, propelled by the 1979 independent truckers’ shutdown, after which she also became an owner-operator.

April 30, 2013

Life

Back ‘On the Road’

Driver and songwriter Tony Justice’s trucking CD is back on the truckstop racks, blazing new trails for independent artists — and benefiting a good cause.

October 18, 2012

Business

Willie’s Place

I learned today about the truck stop in Carl’s Corner, Texas, formerly known as Willie’s Place. Learned by visiting it for the first time. Diane and I woke up this morning at this truck stop. We spent the night there on our way to this afternoon’s pick up. It is a Petro now but not […]

April 20, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Lawler wants trucking message to spread

Country music singer Lindsay Lawler took a shine to the trucking industry – and drivers, specifically – after landing a gig at the Great American Trucking Show.

April 19, 2012

Channel 19

‘Roll On, Truck Driving Girl’: Introducing trucker-songwriter Lisa Godino

Harmony, N.J.-based Lisa Godino (pictured) is a self-proclaimed “folk artist just trying to make a little noise anywhere I can,” she says. It’s not always easy, as the kind of noise she’s talking about isn’t of the Class 8 diesel variety but music, and with “50 hours a week’s worth of trucking, it’s difficult to […]

March 8, 2012

Channel 19

Top of his game: Leland Martin in Truckers News this month

I had the pleasure of interviewing and writing about Leland Martin for this month’s issue of Truckers News, available here. Among today’s trucking troubadours, with a new record out in large part inspired by his work with one particular specialized hauler, Martin stands at the top of the mountain looking down, a position well-deserved after […]

January 5, 2012

Channel 19

New vids from owner-operator/songwriter Howard Salmon

I caught up with Howard Salmon at the TA in downtown Nashville a couple weeks back now — it’d been more than a year since the last time we’d been able to meet up, and he had much to tell. His independent trucking business, hauling in a 1999 Kenworth W900 with a reefer and loading […]

December 26, 2011

Channel 19

A turn in the road for owner-operator R.C. Barnes

Since I shared his “Old Glory” video here on the blog, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the man behind the vid: R.C. Barnes ultimately might have more experience behind the wheel of a trucking business than any other hauler on the highway today. “I’ve heard there’s two guys out here who are […]

December 18, 2011