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Release Date: 07/27/2004
Red Simpson's first album of truck songs is a classic, and a fresh, rousing, unpretentious look at the joy, adventure, and loneliness of the road. The title song, authored by
Tommy Collins, is the best and most serious song here, with a lot of heart in the writing and in the performance by
Simpson -- who speaks part of it with an honesty that a lot of actors would kill to capture in their work -- and it was a Top 40
country hit. Not everything here comes close to the complexity of that number -- there might to one too many songs about drivin' big ol' trucks wherever -- but numbers like
"Nitro Express" and (natch)
"Six Days on the Road" keep a good beat, and
"Truck Driver's Blues," living up to its promise, is a slow
honky-tonk number. Hearing this record again after a lot of years, one is sort of sorry that
Red Simpson never got together with, say,
Commander Cody on an album.
~Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
;)
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