Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves: Big Rig Bustin' Hits (1962-1976) (RSD 2025 EU / UK Exclusive) [Import]

KEY FEATURES

• Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP
• Limited Edition 500 copies
• 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Asphalt Angel’ Blue LPs / 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Midnight Bitumen’ Black LPs
• Full dynamic range 2025 remasters direct from the first-generation analog master tapes!
• Original Cover Art by Eric Adrian Lee

RELEASE DESCRIPTION

10-4 Breaker, Breaker'...

'We got Bears In The Air and Beavers Between The Sheets'...

Across the 1960s and 1970s, Truck Drivers became the unlikely heroes of the American Dream: mythologized, idolized, and lionized in song and on screen. It was estimated, at the time, that more than 2 million 'Knights of the Highway' were 'burning bitumen' at any given time of the day or night - carting the goods, fuels, and resources that kept the wheels of U.S. Consumer Society turning.

Presented here for the very first time are 16 of the very best Trucker Anthems and Long-Haul Laments ever committed to shellac: Existential Road Hog Odes, Amphetamine Rockabilly Rants, and tremulous Truck Stop Succubi Temptations.

Years in the making – ‘Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves: Big Rig Bustin' Hits' features a gear box stuffed full of Pinballing, Cop Dodging, Jack Knifing, and Double Clutching. Demonic Drivers, Spectral Hitchhikers, Tailgating Tearjerkers, and rampant Substance Abuse.

Moments of Gas Guzzling Pathos and delirious White Line Fever.

Indeed, 'The White Line was the Life-Line of The Nation' as Truck Stop Monkeys and Overnight Freight Freaks pumped blood through the Body Mechanic, and Nashville celebrated/exploited these high-balling 'Heroes of the Highways.'

'Smokey's on our Tail'...

So, Put The Hammer Down, The Pedal To The Metal, and come join The Convoy In The Sky...

SEE Stan Farlow's HOT WHEELS!

HEAR Johnny $ Dollar as the BIG RIG ROLLIN' MAN!

WITNESS Red Sovine and the ghostly mystery of PHANTOM 309!

TRACKLIST

1. Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road
2. Red Simpson - Diesel Smoke
3. Johnny $ Dollar - Big Rig Rollin' Man
4. Bobby Braddock - Gear Bustin' Sort Of A Feller
5. Del Reeves – Girl On The Billboard
6. Hank Snow – I've Been Everywhere
7. Dick Curless - A Tombstone Every Mile
8. Red Simpson - Roll Truck Roll
9. C.W. McCall - Convoy
10. Stan Farlow - Hot Wheels
11. C.W. McCall - Night Rider
12. Red Sovine - Phantom 309
13. Benny Barnes - Diesel Smoke
14. The Willis Brothers - Diesel Smoke On Danger Road
15. Red Sovine - Teddy Bear
16. The Willis Brothers - Convoy In The Sky

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