Keep On Truckin'

I've been listening to some CDs that Kris made for us a few years ago. On one of them is "Six Days On The Road", the Grateful Dead version. I used to sing this song in the first band that I joined back in the early 90's. In the lyrics, there is a line that goes, "I got ten forward gears and a Georgia overdrive" (The Grateful Dead said Georgie overdrive). I never really knew what that meant so I looked it up. It refers to when a trucker puts the transmission in neutral to coast down hills or especially mountain roads and can go faster.

This video shows Dave Dudley singing this song in 1970. Check out the clothes and hair style on the electric guitar player. Very typical of the 70's. Evidently, Dave recorded this song at Sun Records in 1963. The Dead did it later.