Perhaps sensing that moving on was a predominate American response to solving a whole host of life’s problems, and recognizing that the long haul trucker was a close cousin to the river boat gambler, Dave Dudley shrewdly grafted reverb-heavy Telecasters to a slowed down rockabilly rhythm and almost single handedly invented the truck driving subgenre of county in the early 1960s. He would stretch the long lonely road metaphor from Nashville to Bakersfield in such classic trucking songs as “Truck Drivin’ Son-of-a-Gun,” “There Ain’t No Easy Run,” and the decidedly un-PC “Two Six Packs Away.” With his deep, workingman’s voice, Dudley made a kind of cowboy poetry out of the nomadic lifestyle of truckers, and lines like “The highway is a part of hell that never caught fire” from the Tom T. Hall-penned “Listen Betty (I’m Singing Your Song)” give his best recordings a timeless shelf life — unless, of course, America ever falls out of love with motion. Which isn’t likely. So that means that Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road,” probably the greatest trucking song ever written, will continue to be relevant as long as there’s an Interstate Highway System and the need for a six day work week. It’ll stay relevant even beyond that. It’s a song about coming home.