Fatal wreck remembered in first recorded trucking song
Jan 18, 2021 “Wreck on the Mountain Road” is about the death of a trucker on Bent Mountain, just southwest of Roanoke, Virginia.What was the first recorded trucking song? It's not something I’d thought about until I read a fascinating story, "Truck Driver's Blues," in the journal Automotive History Review. In it, Todd Uhlman, an assistant professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio, answers that question. The song was “Wreck on the Mountain Road,” recorded by the Red Fox Chasers in 1928, but such trivia is only a small part of what Uhlman's article addresses. He places truc...
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