Country songs about trucks date back to the earliest days of the modern ... Says Tepper, "That track is more of a 'Wreck of the Old 97' kind of thing." Bruner's "Truck Driver's Blues" was the first ...

In addition, dozens of other artists, such as Johnny Dollar and Jim Nesbitt, recorded trucker songs for independent labels such as Starday and Chart. Though these songs rarely showed up on the top 40, ...