Artist description Truck driving music has lost its greatest heroes, Red Sovine, Dick Curless, Gene Tracy, to name just a few. Now, in a burst of thunder and chrome, Trucker Up pulls up to the pump, paying homage to these great American musicians by keeping the great genre of truck driving music alive today.

Music Style Good Ol' Trucking' Music

Musical Influences Red Simpson, Dick Curless, Jerry Reed, Dave Duddly, Red Sovine

Artist History For several years now, Trucker Up has had the pedal to the metal, keepin double nickels between the white lines, while barreling down hardship road, mishaps expressway, and plain old fuck up interstate. But through all of lifes ups and downs Trucker Up continues the great American tradition of playing truck drivin music.

Group Members Founded by Southbound Sandi in 1987, the members of Trucker Up have struggled to keep a permanent lineup together, battling up hill against addiction, heartache and communism. Bassist Steeve "Red" Jacobs joined the band in 1995 after seeing them perform at a truck stop a year earlier. Cousin Ponzer just started showing up to practices, after hearing that free beer and cigarettes were being served; somehow, he just stuck around. Eventually he learned a few tunes on an old piano that was lying around, no one knows exactly whose cousin he really is. Drummer Bed Bug Doug the itchiest percussionist in Trucker Country music signed on after the bands sixth drummer, Mike, entered rehab for his pinball addiction. We all wish him a speedy recovery. Truck Stop Tracy was enlisted after the loss of two previous guitarists to the war on communism.

Press Reviews "You guys are great!... I love the crazy stuff you're doin'" - Jim aka The Reverend Horton Heat "What is this S**T!!!..." - Ted Nugent's Manager ...Next up was easily the best band of the evening, the junkie country band Trucker Up. Their set was like a square dance in a methadone clinic. It was Darby Crash meets Johnny Cash in a country rock Quaalude extravaganza. I stood there mesmerized, watching one of the best sets I had ever seen: a group of killer musicians fronted by a man who looks like the Hunter S. Thompson of the big rig driving community. They played a good mix of covers and originals all about being white trash truck drivers and losers. This is a band not to be missed. - Livemagazine.com Sounds were provided by Trucker Up, who neglected to play the Barbara Mandrell classic "Tonight My Babys Coming Home" ("Fourteen wheels are winding, rolling, headlights shining/Him and that semi been away too long/A million chicks but they can't get him/Want to make love but he won't let em/Everything he needs is right here at home") but did at least close with the anthemic "Convoy." The best thing about the band was the guitarist and vocalist Sandi, a big, no-nonsense gal who's kind of tuneless in a really cool, real way. The crowd, some of whom Linda sniffed that she didn't even know, "And I don't mean, like, people's dates" ate it up. But may I make a suggestion? Of course I may! If you're going to play truck driver songs, play them because you love them. Play them because truck drivers are the last of the cowboys, roaming the plains. Because they're the last of the free. And because they get the best meth. Don't try to protect yourself with an ironic detachment, like the new bluegrass AC/DC cover band Hayseed Dixie, which would be a bitchen group if the singer didn't employ a retarded Adam Sandler voice to assure us he's just goofing around. (For the record, my boyfriend is playing guitar with Trucker Up. I'm supposed to tell you these things.) - OC Weekly (7/12/01) Commie Girl UNPAID BAND ADVERTISEMENT Rebecca Schoenkopf is correct in stating that "truck drivers are the last of the cowboys, roaming the plains the last of the free" ("If I Were Gordon Dillow," July 13). Everything Schoenkopf eats, wears, uses and owns was probably delivered to her via truck. No one understands this more than Trucker Up. We have been delivering fine truckin' music to a hungry populace for over a year now. To imply that we try to "protect ourselves with an ironic detachment" is as patently incorrect and offensive to everyone associated with the band as her assertion that truckers are all meth addicts. As our upcoming shows at the House of Blues on Aug. 5 (with that great American and sportsman, Ted Nugent) and Aug. 26 (with great American and Texan Reverend Horton Heat) will confirm, we are committed to democracy, a free-trade economy, and American ideals. For this reason, we have contacted President Bush regarding our guitarist's known fraternization with Schoenkopf, a member of the Communist Party, and informed him that Trucker Up and Teamsters everywhere stand ready to wage a war on communism and the liberal media. Henceforth, we will treat Schoenkopf as China. "Commie Girl" also incorrectly suggests that her boyfriend is the regular guitarist of Trucker Up. Our actual guitarist, Tracy, was unable to perform at the Fourth of July show and Schoenkopf's boyfriend was kind enough to fill in for him. For those who have seen our performances and enjoyed Tracy's guitar playing, he wants to make clear that he is not now, nor has he ever been, romantically or otherwise involved with any communists, EVER. G. Charles Wright Trucker Up - OC Weekly (7/19/01) Letter to Editor ...Trucker Up on the other hand play a brand of bastardized country that was a smile waiting to happen. I will respect any band that opens up with Convoy, I will, you HAVE to!!!!!!! - Barflies.net Steve Soto

Location Orange, CA - USA

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