After a short baseball career (had suffered an injury to his arm) he pursued a music career starting in 1959. Though ‘Six Days on the Road’ was his most popular song, he has flooded the airwaves with several great songs.
20. Trucking Songs – “Tombstone Every Mile”
This is a great song written by Dan Fulkerson and recorded by American country music artist Dick Curless.
‘Tombstone Every Mile’ is the lead single from the album of the same name, and it was released in January 1965.
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The song was placed as number 5 on the chart for two weeks straight and stayed there for the next seventeen weeks.
The inspiration for the song was the ‘Haynesville Woods’, which is an area around the small town of Haynesville in Aroostook County in northern Maine. This aria was known for many automobile accidents and the dangerous road (hairpin turn) through Haynesville, where truckers will pass often so they can ship potatoes in Boston.
21. Trucking Songs – “Looking at the World through a Windshield”
Del Reeves was more widely known for his songs about women (‘Girl on the Billboard’ and ‘The Belles Of Southern Bell’). But in 1968 he came out with the song of the trucker driver, ‘Looking at the World through a Windshield’ from the album ‘Looking at the World’. It went on to be considered an anthem for the trucking world.
