How Country Music Turned the Ford F-150 Into a Luxury Ride

Texas Monthly ^ | August 15, 2025 | Rose McMackin

[dfwgator]

Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train

[nickcarraway]

Written by Steve Goodman and John Prine.

[dfwgator]

I thought it was David Allen Coe.

[6ppc]

F150’s are baby trucks. Good luck hauling anything over 4000 lbs for a long distance.

[nickcarraway]

He had a hit with it in 1975, but Goodman actually released it in 1971.

[dfwgator]

This was the country era that Texan star Kacey Musgraves, who emerged as a new voice singing about a different set of values in country music, railed against in 2013. “Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere. Literally just stop—nobody cares!”

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She puts the “C*nt” in “Country”.

[Fiji Hill]

The Paul Davis version of Six Days on the Road features a great steel guitar accompaniment, but it omits the verse about bureaucratic overregulation that is found in Dave Dudley's version, which is my favorite song from the 1960s.

[Fiji Hill]

Truck Driver's Blues--Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers (1939)

[jjotto]

...I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride ‘fore I learned to stand
I’m a ridin’ fool who is up to date
I know every trail in the Lone Star State
‘Cause I ride the range in a Ford V8
Oh, yippie yi yo kayah...

[PAR35]

I thought it was David Allen Coe.

Listen to Coe's version:

"Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song"

[Señor Presidente]

And, sadly, absurdly unaffordable any longer to an average working dad like me.

Would love an F350 crew cab with a long bed, but it’s gonna have to wait a few decades. They’ll probably be illegal by then!

[MileHi]

And I told him it was not the perfect country & western song because....

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

New add by chevy.you get a puppy with the puchace of a new chevy truck so you wont have to walk home alone.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

He sang it they wrote it.even states that in the song

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

WHO?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Dave Dudley was the man. Love that song

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Yessir

[niteowl77]

She puts the “C*nt” in “Country”.

IIRC, it was Carlene Carter who was the first to use that line (in public).

[dfwgator]