C.W. McCall - Night Rider

[@vickithompson7503]

My brother had trucking in his blood. Shortly after he retired he fought a long battle with cancer. So in his memory I painted his truck on the side of his urn. He would've been happy. R I.P. little bro.😢This song is classic country!😊

[@WillTheThrill05]

Man this song kicks so much ass!!! I'm 24, and buddy my soul was made to drive, finally found me a job driving an 18 speed Pete! This song pumps me up on them dark lonely nights 🤘🏻 I'm trying my hardest too kept the old breed alive, I was born in the wrong generation, listening to you old timers just down right upsets me, because I've truly missed out and it's a thing of the past anymore...

[@rickmiller1429]

Don't give up looking for things from the past because they are out there. Along the interstates are the worst. Many small towns, especially in the Midwest, still date to another era.

[@rickmiller1429]

I had this on 8 track, man I loved the 70's. Damn, I'm gettin old.

[@WillTheThrill05]

Hey, just be thankful you have bad ass taste in music, I'm 24, and I hate everyone around my age, they suck just like their music!!! Rock on 🤘🏻

[@l.salisbury1253]

RIP CW McCall 1928-2022

[@nikothecat9985]

May he Rip 😔🙏

[@jgmopar]

I just found this album at a thrift store. 1.00 and the best dollar i spent in a long time.

[@iainmartin5129]

Listened to this song one night trucking through west Montana outside Billings gave a really creepy feeling. Great song when up late out on the road.

[@kainhall]

and i played it on highway 200 in eastern MT into rodgers pass and ya.... these MT roads, at night, after HOURS of driving.... 100 miles between ANYTHING..... . "white lines a laser burning holes in my eyes"

[@boneheadbonehead-wj8ml]

Spent several years trucking like this. Hauled livestock all over. Two C.W. McCall songs to relate to. This one and Wolf Creek Pass. Used to load lambs out of Yuma, way on the heavy side, and had to go over wolf creek pass in the middle of the night getting to Eaton. About a 20 hour trip. Now that I have a life with out trucks, it seems crazy to have lived this way.

[@dc761]

I do alot of night driving. It has its advantages but it can work on you pretty hard if you let it.

[@ironlung7176]

As a long haul truck driver myself. I digthis song too. Night driving can be tough sometimes.

[@hanswitt5840]

I heard Fries really did drive truck. This song and music is what goes through your mind on about the 30th hour , on the second night 3 am, I never herd of a sheep packing plant in Frisco, BUT there used to be one in Dickson,CA , BEEN THERE !

[@WorldTravelA320]

Have you heard Superslab Showdown

[@yy19aos]

I never knew it was a real place.

[@BigRedPower59]

My dad would play this song on an 8-track when I was 4 or 5. I remember it scare me so bad that I couldn't sleep.

[@cole46724]

Why would it scare you?

[@BigRedPower59]

@@cole46724 I don’t really know. I was like 5 the first time I heard this. Just gave me the creeps. It’s hard to say why little kids think they way do. The funny thing is, I’ve spent my entire adult life driving trucks. I legitimately understand this song now. LOL!

[@pointingdog7235]

The first time I heard this song I was 10 or 11,, yeah it gave me goosebumps.

[@pointingdog7235]

@@BigRedPower59 I think that the music is what would be scary to a kid that age.

[@tomwells7124]

I can relate, the night breaks out a whole new dimension to everything. The mind plays tricks on you and you sometimes have really weird thoughts.

[@CountryDoublePlay]

My brother and I were hauling up highway101 one night in my Trans Am doing about 80 when the speed limit was double nickles. Suddenly something came out of the dark, grabbed a bunch of brake and this tumbleweed about the size of a basketball came rolling across the road. My brother asked "what did you think it was?" I said "I don't know but it sure looked a lot bigger when I first saw it coming out of the dark." He said "OK it looked bigger to me too." It was funny later in the trip when we started talking about our new line of bumper stickers that said "I brake for tumbleweeds"

[@kainhall]

not a trucker...... but ive done 1800 miles in one day....(in a 99 buick LOL) . and yes..... routes you drove 50 times.... are completely new at night . start out in glasgow MT.... highway to to havre....87 down to the 200 hit rodgers pass..... then end up in missoula . did that run at least 100 times...... damn near died at least 5 times

[@kainhall]

@@CountryDoublePlay i live in montana..... i also brake for tumble-weeds . ive seen them rip up electrical.... even a brake line!

[@xaviert.123]

Lord. I only just heard about his death. Rest in piece you legend, you've made my childhood. Found his songs when I was about 9, such a darn shame he's gone but he had a good run.

[@LUNITICWILL]

he absolutely loved that the Canadian Freedom Convoy used his song as their anthem.

[@jturner26201]

this song is so true .this is what you fell like when you are tired and you have keep pushing on .

[@pointingdog7235]

Man does this one bring back memories of I80.

[@kainhall]

for me its highway 2 if i was headed east.... and 200 if headed west..... up here in montana glasgow to missoula.... and back... in the winter..... with a snow storm . ~7 hour drive (NOTHING to a montanan) turned into damn near 20..... 99 buick century and 2 friends...... about died so many times on rodgers pass..... like a sheet of glass about rear ended a semi..... i stopped, semi tried to move forward to give me room.... axle hop.... starts sliding down into me! i jam it in reverse.... start backing down the hill.... here comes a 1 ton pickup.... he stops about 6 inch off my ass..... starts sliding down himself!! . all 3 of us were sliding back down the mountain for about 10 seconds..... felt like an hour in the heat of the moment...... . . my buddy had to get out and push on the finder to turn the car..... it was THAT slick but (with a FEATHER on the throttle) we got enough traction to move.... made the summit... and made Missoula before class . teacher (should not be called a prof) kicked my desk when i fell asleep i got up, picked up my shit off the floor.... flipped the dude off, said FUCK YOU, FUCK HEAD, and never came back...... . id still kick that fucker in the knee if i saw him in public.... that shit rang my bell! desk to head....ouch!

[@paulpeck7031]

I like this song. I've always enjoyed C.W. I had him autograph a CD for me last year. he is a very down to earth guy.

[@LUNITICWILL]

hope you still have it. he passed away April 1st, 2022.

[@raymoj28]

there is no exception for the master of trucking music. ..but C.W

[@simonwilson6669]

I've driven many a night out late like this

[@kellibarcus276]

Grew up with C.W. McCall, he's classic!

[@kyleclontz2414]

I've been truckin across I 80 through Nevada for damn near 10 years and I can relate to night rider truckin through winnemucca all the time!

[@garyshaw3112]

Trucker rap so cool

[@terryboren4186]

Stationed in Missouri when this song was popular. You could talk 30 miles no skip. CB talk.

[@kellibarcus276]

I was a CBer in the 70's, 80's, and 90's.

[@robertsollory7475]

I never realized how good this guy was. Why hadn't I got into this years ago?

[@davidblakeman7165]

R.I.P. C.W. McCall. Enjoy your new or completely rebuilt old Peterbilt. P.S. you were the first rapper.

[@gorgonite74]

Soon as he dropped the first verse I thought "this sounds like a rap flow!". Props Walmartian!

[@WillTheThrill05]

I sent this to my dad and he said the exact same thing 😂

[@Scrapmanluke1]

This is the first rap song ever PERIOD!!

[@JakePenrod]

Not quite. Floyd Tillman’s “She’s Long Gone” beats this by about 20 years.

[@snickpickle]

@@JakePenrod Interesting. I always thought Bob Dylan was credited with the first rap song (1966). Now I have to listen to the song you've mentioned! Thanks for the tip.

[@kellyrayburn4093]

Try again. Ringo by Loren Green was the 1st rap song. Back in 1966 I believe it was.

[@95Everan]

You noticed ! I hear a rap flow when I hear one. That’s why I like country music. They say their lyrics with an edgy undertone

[@truckerjim1]

I drive nights for a supermarket, deliver stuff in the inner city, dsmn i love those empty streets, keep the rubber down and stay safe mates💪💪🚛

[@WillTheThrill05]

Man O man, this is just one bad ass tune!!!

[@raymoj28]

God bless C.W...and all the others

[@jimenticer3642]

Looool. I can never take him serious when he says in is serious deep voice "I got a belly full a jelly" lol

[@heatherwilliams5106]

The "Storytellers" of country music invented rap. For Starters, C. W. McCall, Tom T. Hall, Jim Stafford, Johnny Bond, Red Simpson and Red Sovine just to name a few.

[@lylejohnson7591]

My Wife loved these songs.

[@lm6817]

I now have all his music on vinyl!

[@BFTA911]

Many of nights like this... WILDCARD will be on the side

[@kaloncar]

Ahhhh, convoy rap, love it!

[@samwiskee4545]

1975 somebody from the big city got a hold of this album changed the lyrics and claimed they invented rap like it or not your music come from country artist like cw mcall and red sovine

[@caseycharle321]

Couldn't agree more

[@Bartonovich52]

Except that this is talking blues set to a disco funk beat and sounds nothing like Grandmaster Flash.

[@snickpickle]

Bob Dylan is actually credited with doing the first "rap" song (1966, if I remember correctly). No, neither CW nor BD sound like Grandmaster Flash, but then again, GF doesn't sound like his predecessors, either.

[@nightcrawler1]

omg i luv it

[@tomwells7124]

1 for my master, 1 for my dame and 1 for Jimmy Bowenz who lives in LA!!!!!!

[@acoolerhandle]

I Thought it was Name, not Dame. Huh.

[@williamimboden7386]

Why is this song (and original album) not available for streaming?

[@jeffstalnaker1]

Always a good song. Does anyone have C.W. McCall's song Pine Tar Wars?

[@robertharrison1601]

ATS MYSTIC CORRIDORS 2024

[@myhattrick]

This is not rap - listen again - there is actual music and talent here!!!

[@kampase]

myhattrick haha I get it, cos rap isn’t real music hahahah

[@nicholmansgarage3501]

Finally, someone who understands that!

[@kainhall]

rap has plenty of talent (and sometimes even a good beat / "backing track") now this modern shit..... no . if it gets my foot tapping.... or i can relate to it... or feel something..... its GOOD MUSIC TO MY EARS!

[@Crottinger]

The first rap song backed by Mannheim Steamroller

[@mikeskidmore6754]

How a couple of Radio advertisement creators accidentally became a Great County Band ..

[@jordanjones-fm7ge]

Life of a bull hauler!

[@sarahdaigh2048]

i'm a kansas cty, kid 4 life

[@walmartian]

before there were white rappers the was cw

[@Scrapmanluke1]

Alabamy mamie got a spell on my life!!

[@thewreckoning7019]

Real to real …red needles with an amber back light …I can smell it now on 1975…

[@Love6653]

Can Any One Post Camp Bird Mine, And Pine Tar Wars By Cw. These Are Great Songs And No One Has Posted Them Thanks?

[@LouisBedford]

Now my siri navigation in my car tells me when there's a "speed check" ahead. No more cb's. No more trucker lingo

[@kdrapertrucker]

Wait why is he taking sheep to Frisco? I'm sick of that maybe I don't want to know!

[@acoolerhandle]

I’m gonna guess payment for whatever he was getting at the end of the song, but really who knows.

[@darknitethunder]

Livestock yards. Their all over the Bay area, and California.

[@garycomstock2868]

does anyone know how to save this to put it on an iPhone???? iTunes doesn't offer the song!!

[@elijahduff7400]

youtube to mp3?

[@randolphalderette1782]

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[@allenliebau7483]

Guess who the back up group is..... Mannheim steamroller

[@dc761]

Not on this recording.

[@georgiepresley238]

2018???????

[@marctheman001]

u need a night light too?

[@controlledburst]

Isn't CW McCall...rap? Could he be the origin?

[@epi4925]

0:03

[@jamesslack324]

First rap ever

[@상보-z7q]

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