
Release Date | 12/04/2025 |
Format | LP |
Label | Iron Mountain Analogue Research |
Catalogue Number | IMAR142LP |
Limited Edi?on Deluxe Gatefold
LP for RSD2025.
Full dynamic range 2025 remasters direct from the first-genera?on analogue master
tapes!
Original Cover Art by Eric Adrian Lee!
Limited Edi?on 500 copies!
250 (randomly inserted) ‘Asphalt Angel’ Blue LPs / 250 (randomly inserted)
‘Midnight Bitumen’ Black LPs!
'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, idolised and lionized in song and on screen. It was
es.mated, at the .me, that more than 2 million 'Knights of the Highway' were
'burning bitumen' at any given .me of the day or night - car.ng the goods, fuels and
resources that kept the wheels of U.S. Consumer Society turning.
Presented here for the very first .me are 16 of the very best Trucker Anthems and
Long-Haul Laments ever commired to shellac: Existen.al Road Hog Odes,
Amphetamine Rockabilly Rants and tremulous Truck Stop Succubi Tempta.ons.
Years in the making – ‘Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves: Big Rig Bus.n' Hits'
features a gear box stuffed full of Pinballing, Cop Dodging, Jack Knifing and Double
Clutching. Demonic Drivers, Spectral Hitchhikers, Tailga.ng 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 Na.on' 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!
Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road, Red Simpson - Diesel Smoke, Johnny $ Dollar -
Big Rig Rollin' Man, Bobby Braddock - Gear Bus.n' Sort Of A Feller, Del Reeves – Girl
On The Billboard, Hank Snow – I've Been Everywhere, Dick Curless - A Tombstone Every Mile, Red Simpson - Roll Truck Roll, C.W. McCall - Convoy, Stan Farlow - Hot
Wheels, C.W. McCall - Night Rider, Red Sovine - Phantom 309, Benny Barnes - Diesel
Smoke, The Willis Brothers - Diesel Smoke On Danger Road, Red Sovine - Teddy Bear,
The Willis Brothers - Convoy In The Sky
RSD25 - Record Store Day