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====Truck-driving country====<!-- linked from [[truck driving country music]] --> {{Main|Truck-driving country}} Truck-driving country music is a genre of country music<ref name="truckers-jukebox">{{cite book | title = Trucker's Jukebox: Various Artists: Music | url = https://www.amazon.com/Truckers-Jukebox-Various-Artists/dp/B0009A1ATG | access-date = February 24, 2009 | quote = Trucker's Jukebox covers the Country landscape: outlaw, honkey tonk, country-rock, Bakersfield sound, country comedy, truck driving country and more.}}</ref> and is a fusion of [[honky-tonk]], [[country rock]] and the [[Bakersfield sound]].<ref name="starpulse">{{cite web|title=Truck Driving Country Music |url=http://www.starpulse.com/Genre/MusicGenres.html?Genre=CTRY&ID=D4307&Lvl=4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604195447/http://www.starpulse.com/Genre/MusicGenres.html?Genre=CTRY&ID=D4307&Lvl=4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2012 |publisher=All Media Guide LLC |access-date=February 24, 2009 }}</ref> It has the [[tempo]] of country rock and the emotion of honky-tonk,<ref name="starpulse"/> and its lyrics focus on a [[truck driver]]'s lifestyle.<ref name="amazon">{{cite web | title = Dave Dudley: Albums, Songs, Bios, Photos | website = Amazon | url = https://www.amazon.com/Dave-Dudley/e/B000APBUEU | access-date = February 24, 2009 }}</ref> Truck-driving country songs often deal with the profession of trucking and love.<ref name="starpulse"/> Well-known artists who sing truck driving country include [[Dave Dudley]], [[Red Sovine]], [[Dick Curless]], [[Red Simpson]], [[Del Reeves]], [[the Willis Brothers]] and [[Jerry Reed]], with [[C. W. McCall]] and [[Cledus Maggard]] (pseudonyms of Bill Fries and Jay Huguely, respectively) being more humorous entries in the subgenre.<ref name="starpulse"/> Dudley is known as the father of truck driving country.<ref name="amazon"/><ref name="mp3com">{{cite web|title=Dave Dudley |url=http://www.mp3.com/genre/193/subgenre.html |access-date=February 24, 2009 |publisher=CBS Interactive |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305202416/http://www.mp3.com/genre/193/subgenre.html |archive-date=March 5, 2009 }}</ref>
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