SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD
Created on 20/08/2001Latest update on 09/10/2024
Artist: Paul Davis
Author: Earl Green/Carl Montgomery
Label: Bulletin
Year: 1961
Truckers' favorite written by two real truckers spending six days on one job regularly. In fact this song more or less started the truck driving song genre singlehandedly. It was first offered to Jimmy C. Newman but he turned it down. Billboard first mentioned this original version in September '61.
Covers:
- 1963:
Dave Dudley [n°2 C&W, originally on Golden Wing, second version on Mercury]
- 1963:
- 1963:
- 1965:
- 1965:
- 1966:
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1967:
- 1968:
- 1969:
- 1969:
- 1969:
Flying Burrito Brothers [in film Gimme Shelter]
- 1970:
- 1970:
- 1973:
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels [with Emmylou Harris]
- 1974:
- 1975:
Claude François [as Six jours sur la route]
- 1979:
- 1983:
Henk Wijngaard [as Met 30 Tonnen Vracht]
- 1985:
- 1987:
- 1987:
- 1990:
- 1990s:
- 1990s:
- 1991:
- 1994:
- 1995:
- 1996:
- 1997:
Sawyer Brown [in film Planes, Trains & Automobiles; title track cd and top 20 C&W]
- 2000:
- 2008:
- 2008:
Mudcrutch [with Tom Petty]
