Released April 1997 Artist Whiskeytown Producer Chris Stamey Genre Alternative country | Length 14:28 Release date April 1997 Label Bloodshot Records | |
Recorded December 1996 at Captured Live, Durham, NC & Modern Recording Service, Chapel Hill, NC Theme for a Trucker
(1997) Rural Free Delivery
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Ryan adams theme for a trucker
Theme for a Trucker is a limited edition double 7" vinyl EP by alternative country band Whiskeytown, released by Bloodshot Records in 1997. According to the Bloodshot Records website, only 2000 copies were pressed.
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Whiskeytown theme for a trucker
Music and lyrics
The song "Theme for a Trucker" was written by Ryan Adams as a tribute to his friend Jere McIlwean, who had recently died from a heroin overdose. McIlwean (who had also been a bandmate of Adams in his pre-Whiskeytown days) was in a band named Trucker; hence the title of the song. Said Adams of McIlwean: "He’d hate that song so bad; he hated country. Well, he didn’t hate country music, but he didn’t like my version of it, anyway.”
According to a 1997 article in No Depression magazine, Whiskeytown's cover of the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" almost made it onto this release. The song's inclusion was even lobbied for by its composer, Alejandro Escovedo.
Personnel and production credits
Songs
1Theme for a Trucker4:29
2My Heart Is Broken3:05
3Houses On The Hill2:26