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Songs to Haul Freight to
Maybe every couple of years I will write a post about songs along a certain theme, like best prison songs or best rodeo songs. A few months ago I had been thinking that I would write a thread on trucking songs and publish it sometime between September 11th and 17th, to coincide with National Truck Drivers Appreciation Week. But since the Canadian truckers convoy/protest is in the news a lot, I figured I could just as well do it now. Pretty much all of the trucking songs I know are country music, because that is the genre I am most familiar with, but don’t let that hold you back if you want to post a link to The Eighteen Wheelers Waltz, if such a thing exists.
Spending my teenage years growing up in Laredo, TX, was not a particularly easy or pleasant experience. Amongst the many annoyances one had to deal with in a culturally isolated South Texas border town was a lack of quality English-language programming on the radio. If you weren’t into silly bubble-gum pop or a multitude of Spanish-language musical genres, you were out of luck. Thus, I had to rely heavily on AM radio stations broadcasting from San Antonio, some 150 miles up I-35.
Or more precisely, went country some two decades ago. *record scratch*
I am saddened to hear of the death of country music legend 
Last night, as I was driving down Highway 281 across the Texas Hill Country from Marble Falls to suburban San Antonio, my way home was illuminated by a September harvest moon. It was an unusually cool late summer evening, indicating the chill of an early fall and evoking an ambience of ominous serenity. During my drive south, my mind wandered to an obscure yet thrilling film from 1975: 