Breaker one nine, this is Baron Badass Von Kickass and I’m southbound with freightshaker full of trucker tracks. If smokey is riding your back door today, get in this convoy and let the King of the Road edition of Finetune Friday help keep your hammer down until you reach the weekend. 10-4?

Quiz

Think you know the lingo of the road? Why not take a quick quiz and put your green stamps where your mouth is? Answers can be found at the end of the post.

1. What is considered the truckers’ CB channel?
2. If someone is stuck in the chicken coop, where are they?
3. If you hear that there’s a smokey in a plain brown wrapper on your back door, what should you do?
4. If there’s a 10-33 ahead of your 20, what’s going on?
5. If you’re deadheading from BeanTown to Hog Town, how high are you, dude?

Stats

Viv and I did specific interpretations of the theme this month, so there wasn’t as much overlap between the lists as there was last month. As a result, I had a lot of tie breaking leeway, so the stats are a bit subjective.

Most Popular Artists:

1. C.W. McCall
2. Dave Dudley
3. Jerry Reed
4. Red Sovine
5. Dale Watson

Most Popular Albums:

1. Cairo to Casablanca by Kadda Chrif Hadria
2. Silk Road Journeys – When Strangers Meet by Yo-Yo Ma
3. C. W. McCall’s Greatest Hits by C.W. McCall
4. The Truckin’ Sessions by Dale Watson
5. The Best of Red Sovine by Red Sovine

Most Popular Tracks:

1. “Truck Stop Girl” by Little Feat
2. “Forty Miles of Bad Road” by Duane Eddy
3. “Looking At The World Through A Windshield” by Son Volt
4. “East Bound And Down” by Jerry Reed
5. “Convoy” by C.W. McCall

If you want sorted by track and album, you you can grab a text file of this month’s full stats here.

FineTune Friday: King Of The Road (Trucker’s Songs)

Other FineTune Friday Participants This Month:

Not all the lists are as truck-centric as mine, so don’t be shy about checking out the other FineTune Friday participants who are rolling along with us this month. M-Shel and Christina are mixed genre lists, while Viv decided to do a classical reenactment of travels on the Silk Route.

• Life is a Highway by Christina
• Hittin’ the Road by Michelle
• On the (Silk) Road Again by Viv
• Metallicar: A Supernatural Road Trip by K

Quiz Answers:

1. Channel 19. 2. At a weigh station. 3. If there’s an unmarked police car following you, my advice would be to slow down. 4. There is an accident up ahead. Maybe you should take your dinner break. 5. Hopefully, you’re not high at all because you’re running without cargo from Boston to Toronto.

Previous FineTune Fridays:

If you want to listen to any of the previous FineTune Fridays, head on over to the Dyers.org FineTune Friday page.

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