Various Artists – Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves: Big Rig Bustin’ Hits (1962-1976) – 1LP – Random Vinyl – ‘Asphalt Angel’ Blue or ‘Midnight Bitumen’ Black [Record Store Day 2025]

This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. Available to buy in-storefrom 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday14/04/2025.

Limited Edi?on Deluxe Gatefold LP for RSD2025

Full dynamic range 2025 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes!Original Cover Art by Eric Adrian Lee! 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Asphalt Angel’ Blue LPs / 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Midnight Bitumen’ Black LPs!’10-4 Breaker, Breaker’…’We got Bears In The Air and Beavers Between The Sheets’…Across the 1960s and 1970s, Truck Drivers became the unlikely heroes of the American Dream: mythologized, idolised and lionized in song and on screen

It was estimated, at the time, that more than 2 million ‘Knights of the Highway’ were ‘burning bitumen’ at any given time of the day or night – carting the goods, fuels and resources that kept the wheels of U.S

Consumer Society turning.Presented here for the very first time are 16 of the very best Trucker Anthems and Long-Haul Laments ever committed to shellac: Existential Road Hog Odes, Amphetamine Rockabilly Rants and tremulous Truck Stop Succubi Temptations.Years in the making ‘Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves: Big Rig Bustin’ Hits’ features a gear box stuffed full of Pinballing, Cop Dodging, Jack Knifing and Double Clutching

Demonic Drivers, Spectral Hitchhikers, Tailgating Tearjerkers and rampant Substance Abuse.

Track Listing

1. Dave Dudley – Six Days On The Road
2. Red Simpson – Diesel Smoke
3. Johnny $ Dollar – Big Rig Rollin’ Man
4. Bobby Braddock – Gear Bus’n Sort Of A Feller
5. Del Reeves – Girl On The Billboard
6. Hank Snow – I’ve Been Everywhere
7. Dick Curless – A Tombstone Every Mile
8. Red Simpson – Roll Truck Roll
9. C.W. McCall – Convoy
10. Stan Farlow – Hot Wheels
11. C.W. McCall – Night Rider
12. Red Sovine – Phantom 309
13. Benny Barnes – Diesel Smoke
14. The Willis Brothers – Diesel Smoke On Danger Road
15. Red Sovine – Teddy Bear
16. The Willis Brothers – Convoy In The Sky