Mikey made a great joke post yesterday about 10-4 being Talk Like a Trucker Day and I have to say I think it’s a brilliant idea. Just as silly and funny as Talk like a Pirate Day.

Sure, I rebelled in my Alabama youth by not liking football and trying to speak like a valley girl (that one in California, not the Tennessee Valley) instead of using a southern accent (failing in a big sad way) but I liked Smokey and the Bandit and was known to watch an episode or two of The Dukes of Hazzard (odd factoid: my mom taught a math class at an Atlanta high school in the sixties with the blonde one as a student). I haven’t watched one in a long, long time though and don’t plan to see the movie remake thing, EVER. I do still watch Smokey and the Bandit when it comes on TBS sometimes. I mean, damn that movie is funny in a really silly way. And I still think Fred the basset hound is cute. So there. I had an uncle on one side and a cousin on the other who were both truckers for a while so it’s kind of funny to reminisce about that weird “trucker cool” crap that happened in the seventies.

Anyway, here’s some funny redneck trucker songs to download. Just pretend I put them up on 10-4.

C.W. McCall - Convoy
Jerry Reed - East Bound and Down (the main song from Smokey and the Bandit)
Waylon Jennings - Just Good Ol’ Boys (original theme song for Dukes of Hazzard)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - punk cover of Just Good Ol’ Boys