The Truckin' Sessions: Volume Two

The Truckin' Sessions: Volume Two

The Truckin’ Sessions: Volume Two surfaced a decade after Dale Watson’s first big-rig themed album The Truckin’ Sessions, but Volume Two sounds like it was recorded during the same sessions as its predecessor. What’s even more impressive is that both albums sound like they were unearthed from a time capsule buried in early-‘60s Bakersfield — Watson unapologetically lives, eats, sleeps, and plays old school honky-tonk. From the opener “Drag N Fly” Watson takes off like a cross between Dave Dudley and Merle Haggard as his beefy baritone likens aging to an old faithful truck. He landed the Telecaster-picking prowess of Haggard’s former guitarist, Redd Volkaert, who along with pedal steel guru Don Pawlak help make songs like “Yankee Doodle Jean” sound like a recording from Hag’s vintage vaults. “Hero” is the kind of slow waltzing tear-in-beer tune you’d hear from the jukebox of a trucker’s roadhouse saloon. Volume Two doesn’t just recreate the past, it adds to a rich but semi-obscure legacy of twangy trucking songs that would surely please the ears of both Reds, Simpson and Sovine.

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