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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

Life

Lynyrd Skynyrd continues long-haul legacy with new record

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s new “Last of a Dyin’ Breed” record runs hard with themes of the passing of a generation of highwaymen and -women. Interviews here with guitarist/Blackfoot founding member Rickey Medlocke and tour hauler Dale Macon.

August 22, 2012

Life

Talking with singer Lindsay Lawler

Love trucking music? Don’t miss OD sister pub Truckers News’ latest Celebrity Series installment.

July 20, 2012

Business

Lindsay Lawler to mix old and new on trucking radio show

Country singer/songwriter Lindsay Lawler is hosting a new trucking Internet radio show.

July 17, 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

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

Channel 19

Finding happiness with Dutch trucking music

De weg naar geluk, per the nifty Google Translator service, is The road to happiness in Dutch. It also happens to be a song title for a country tune from across the pond by Dutch country singer Henk Wijngaard, with Silvia Swart. Wijngaard is known for his trucking music. Below, find a vid for the […]

February 5, 2012

Channel 19

Cumberland Collective: Road music to keep an ear out for

I had the rare opportunity to pay witness to a recording session Wednesday night in Nashville at Blackbird Studios — a group called the Cumberland Collective (a couple of members of which I’m familiar with via the folks-in-their-30s-with-kids-needing-an-occasional-babysitter circuit) had opened up the doors on the 45-track studio to turn the 10-hour session into something […]

December 3, 2011

Home

Online trucker network launches Monday

The host of the online radio trucking  program “Dispatch Me Home” is starting an online network of the same name with additional music and other programming. It will launch at 10 a.m. CST Nov. 21, says host Big Al Weekley. The network is based at www.DispatchMeHomeRadio.com. Weekley produces the network with Bruce Wieser, known as […]

November 18, 2011

Channel 19

Tony Justice among performers Saturday at driver convention

I’m excited about seeing East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and songwriter Tony Justice make his driver-event debut Saturday at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention in Tunica, Miss., on Saturday. I’ve heard him play before, as the vids below are evidence of, but at the show he’ll be with a full band of seasoned Nashville […]

October 13, 2011

Channel 19

Former Overdrive editor, actor Charles Napier passes on

Character actor and former Overdrive editor Charles Napier passed away at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Napier’s perhaps best known for his role as one of the Good Old Boys in the Blues Brothers film as well as an intelligence officer in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Rambo: First Blood Part II. […]

October 7, 2011

Channel 19

Overdrive’s Lucinda Coulter on Big Al’s show this week

Tune into Big Al Weekley’s Dipatch Me Home Radio streaming broadcast this week for an interview with Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter about the magazine’s 50th anniversary special coverage and her place in it. A prime place it is. Coulter headed up our Overdrive Retro website for more than a year preceding the anniversary issue, […]

September 13, 2011