"I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonopah I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made Driven the back roads, so I wouldn't get weighed...
And if you give me... Weed, whites, and wine And show me a sign, I'll be willin'....."
I drove the Big Rig over the road for 8 years. This is a song about truck driving and I love it. There is a beauty and a majesty about staying out on the road for weeks at a time and driving over the open roads and this song captures it. You have to do it for years, to understand it. I know, Linda never had a CDL but she is an artist and this is some great artistic expression.
I have driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed a dozen times. I always succeeded in dodging the scales, maybe I was lucky.
I will say, the open road of Interstate 20 west of Sweetwater Texas at 2 am, rolling west with the full moon shining on the white sands and the cactus of the desert, popping a 5 Hour Energy and smoking a Marlboro, that is a wonderful way to spend a few hours on God's Green Earth.
When I was in the Loves Truck Stop in Midland Texas for the night, out there on Interstate 20, stopped for a 10 hour break, at midnight, I might play this song four times in a row. Love this song.
