Today, we had a delivery to our house. However, this one was a little different from the typical visit from UPS or FedEx. A big rig, 18-wheeler semi-truck and trailer pulled into our driveway and parked at the side of our house. When the stuff was unloaded, the driver headed through the gate and turned around in the pasture behind the house.
I immediately started singing, “Give me 40 acres to turn this rig around.” My wife looked at me like I was nuts, and I had to explain that it was an old Country song.
When I was a kid, they sold albums on television. The commercial played snippets of songs on the album, and the announcer gave out a phone number to order it. Those commercials always got my attention, and I always wanted to buy the albums.
Certainly, my mom did not buy all of the albums that I wanted, but she bought one of the all time greats – Road Music: 23 Truckin’ Hits.
Looking back, the producers were certainly trying to capitalize on the trucking and CB craze of the time. However, they also mined some classic Country hits of the trucking genre. It included artists like Minnie Pearl, Del Reeves, Jimmy Martin and Red Sovine, who made a career out of trucking songs.
Of course, I did not know all of that when I was a kid. I just knew that it was a cool commercial with cool sounding songs. It also had a cover that attracted my young attention.
I listened to the album over and over. My favorite songs were:
“Six Days on the Road” by Dave Dudley
“Convoy” by T.H. Music Festival
“Give Me 40 Acres to Turn This Rig Around” by The Willis Brothers
“Phantom 309” by Red Sovine
It was a great album. Now, I have to see if I can find a copy out there somewhere. No more phone numbers. I will just Google it.
SBI: A Thinning Crowd 
I guess you’ve got a really big back forty. We do too, but it’s full of trees.
Ours has a few cows.
CCR makes some good road tunes.
They definitely do that.