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Overdrive Radio

Raise scam awareness — How to combat expensive online fakery; More from ‘Long Haul Paul’

An online security expert addresses an audience to increase their digital awareness in order to combat online scams. Read more right here on Overdrive Online.

February 22, 2019

Life

Watch: Bill ‘Watermelon Slim’ Homans, ‘Long Haul Paul’ Marhoefer live from Indiana

Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans recently stopped at the Key Palace Theater on his tour in support of the new "Church of the Blues" record. Read more on Overdrive.

February 7, 2019

Channel 19

Watermelon Slim tour dates, and a special guest in Indiana Feb. 2

Overdrive’s own “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer joins Slim at the Feb. 2 performance. Also: The long and short on former owner-op and “In the Driver’s Seat” trucking-memoir author Marc Mayfield’s new work of page-turning detective fiction, “On Grove Street.”

January 14, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Listen: Trucker Talent Search 2018 — the people, the performances

This year’s competition, and this edition of Overdrive Radio, featured quite a collection of trucker-songwriters all, from show opener and talent-search alumnus “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer to emcee Tony Justice and this year’s competitors Benford “B.J.” Williams, James Nelson, and the ultimate winner, Mandi Jo Pinheiro.

August 31, 2018

Overdrive Radio

MATS preview, live from Nashville: ‘Long Haul Paul’ Marhoefer with Jan, Donnie Gullett

With a new record out from Laughing Hyena records and available at many truck stops around the nation, trucker-songwriter Paul Marhoefer started the MATS week in Nashville, Tenn., where we caught up with him for an impromptu run through several of his tracks at the Fiddler’s Inn.

March 21, 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

Business

‘Truckers for Humanity’ hosting live-streamed concert, benefit event Saturday

On the Truckers for Humanity Facebook page the evening of October 21, six trucker/singer-songwriters will perform live to benefit TruckersFinalMile.org.

October 19, 2017

Custom Rigs

A first-year success in the Badger State Truck Show

The first ever Badger State Truck Show is in the books, and scheduled to become an annual event. Organizers and those in attendance agreed: a good time was had by all. Like several of the smaller shows that have begun popping up, Badger State grew from a Facebook group, Badger State Large Cars, and a […]

August 14, 2017

Business

From film-noir to long haul trucking: The roots and branches of Paul Marhoefer

With a grandfather who was a pioneer in filmmaking and a bevy of masterful folk tunes to his credit, long-haul Paul Marhoefer is a unique creature of American trucking.

July 17, 2017

Business

The littlest truck show that could

“The 2nd Annual Take Pride Truck Show is in the books. We ended the weekend with a whopping total of $6,300 and some change, raised for Truckersfinalmile.org. To date, this is the largest dollar amount raised at a truck show for this charity, and we are thrilled to have been a part of it.”

June 12, 2017

Business

Bits and pieces

Bit of a thought experiment here, a well-wish for a happy birthday to Troy Huddleston and some info on the Brookville, Ohio, Take Pride Truck Show, all set for next Friday and Saturday — will you be there?

May 31, 2017

Channel 19

Paul Marhoefer’s ‘Elloree’, with a new music video, tells Jason’s Law story

Asked to write a song for Jason’s Law by a friend, Marhoefer asked himself what bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley would do and wrote it as a murder ballad — the final result, a powerful invocation of the story behind the parking-funding/security legislation.

May 16, 2017