Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun (1999)

About this title: Lecil Martin, the son of a railroad worker, got nowhere in the country music business until he invented a character, Boxcar Willie, a lovable hobo who sang songs that appealed to America's nostalgic sense of a bygone, better era when trains ruled and hard rain was just a heck of a rainstorm and nothing else. That Boxcar really wasn't anything special as a singer or guitarist hardly mattered as much as the songs he sang, which celebrated an idealized, iconic America, and when he began hawking his albums on late-night TV ads, it was a brilliant case of concept over substance, not to mention ... read more

Tracks:

1. Truck Driving Man [Fell]
2. Freightline Fever [Lankford/Truman]
3. Phantom 309 [Faile]
4. White Line Fever [Haggard]
5. Convoy [Davis/Fries]
6. How Fast Them Trucks Will Go [Gray/Anderson]
7. Trucker's Prayer [Sovine]
8. Teddy Bear [Hill/Sovine/Royal]
9. Six Days on the Road [Green/Montgomery]
10. Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun [Deen/King]
11. Girl on a Billboard [Mills/Haynes]
12. North to Alaska [Phillips]
13. Forty Acres [Green]
14. Dixie [Emmett]
15. Yankee Doodle [Traditional]
16. Battle Hymn of the Republic [Howe/Steffe]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.