highlighting trucks as symbols of fun and adventure. Then there's Joe Diffie's "Pickup Man," a delightful song that celebrates the joys and practicalities of owning a truck, further cementing its place in popular culture. These masterpieces, among others, exemplify why songs about ...
"I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made / You know, if it weren't for trucks we wouldn't have tailgates / I met all my wives in traffic jams / There's just something women like about a pickup man."Those lyrics "picked up" lots of country fans when the song was ...
When you want to feel like a cowboy, which song do you add to your playlist? The '90s saw the rise of fantastic country female singers like Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, and Faith Hill who put out ballads about love and loss. Many high schoolers would turn on these tracks...
Justin Townes Earle has never been one for fetishized country songs about trucks and the gal who did ‘im wrong. But even by his own rubric,The Saint of Lost Causesis his darkest, moodiest album yet, stretching beyond the implied limits of his chosen genre and deeper into the roots of ...
Bet you've never heard a country song with a tuba solo before! The Vandals' version is actually a cover of a deep cut from Stan Freese, a tuba player who brought his instrument to the set of country variety program Wade Bowen, "Songs About Trucks" ...
No. 35: Chris Stapleton, "Maggie's Song" Songs about dogs are a country music cliche — right up there with songs about beer and songs about trucks — but the truth is that there aren't as many good dog songs as there used to be. One powerful, emotional example is Chris Stapleton'...
Her song, "Merry Go 'Round," sounds like nothing else in country music. Rolling Stone called it a "spectacular gut-punch single." Musically it's fairly traditional -- it's the lyrics that are different. "Almost like you're trying to sneak in," said Mason. ...
I am not your stereotypical gay guy. In country, we’re selling a product now that a lot of these guys have never one time even lived; I hear all these guys singing about trucks and tailgates and all this bullshit that I’ve actually done and lived. It’s awesome for me to think ...
There was a time, not so long ago, when combining country and hip-hop was considered blasphemous, problematic, gauche, and maybe even avant garde too. “Cruise” was all of this and more, a high-summer love song in which trucks, girls, and the FGL boys themselves all take turns as ob...