This article is about a song. For the Sawyer Brown album, see Six Days on the Road (album).
"Six Days on the Road"
Single by Dave Dudley
from the album Songs About the Working Man
Released
May 1963 (U.S.)
Recorded
March 1963 Kay Bank Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Genre
Country, truck-driving country
Length
2:24
Label
Golden Wing 3020
Songwriter(s)
Earl Green and Carl Montgomery
Producer(s)
Shelby Singleton
Dave Dudley singles chronology
"Under the Cover of the Night" (1962)
"Six Days on the Road" (1963)
"Cowboy Boots" (1963)
"Six Days on the Road" is an American song written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous by country music singer Dave Dudley. The song was initially recorded by Paul Davis (not the same as the better known singer-songwriter, full name Paul Lavon Davis) and released in 1961 on the Bulletin label. In 1963, the song became a major hit when released by Dudley, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and cracking the Top 40 (#32) on the Hot 100, leading to it being hailed as the definitive celebration of the American truck driver.[1][2]
In 1997, more than 30 years after Dudley's version charted, country music band Sawyer Brown took the song back to the Hot Country Songs chart, reaching #13.
^[1] Dahl, Bill, "Six Days on the Road" at Allmusic
^Malone, Bill, "The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music" ((booklet included with The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music 8-volume set). Smithsonian Institution, 1981).
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