Drive, Drive, Drive

Fergie & The Steelheads | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Music Mill
• ASIN: B00003653N
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,029,096 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Fergie & The Steelheads. What? You don’t recognize the name? That’s okay. You will. You’ve heard Fergie’s music. Remember that night in the truck stop restroom when that…that song came on over the intercom speaker? It was THAT song that inspired you to drive all the way to Vegas. Remember? Well that was FERGIE. How ‘bout that song you heard in Billy Bob’s Watering Hole that led you to call home and make up. That was FERGIE, too!

Y’see Fergie & The Steelheads is every band. For generations you have heard songs in bars and truck stops, in restaurants and restroom stalls, on truck radios and tennis courts, on freeways and fairways, at home and in prison that were inspired by our musical pioneer FERGIE.

Fergie is revered by many a musician, although when asked, those same musicians are usually at a loss as to Fergie’s true identity. They’ll reverently call him “that guy” or “ole what’s-his-name” but the mystique that is Fergie remains.

“It’s that real pound-yer-palms-on-the-steering-wheel kinda music” one anonymous admirer lovingly stated of Fergie & The Steelheads’ music. Another fan draws on Fergie’s uncanny marketing instincts “He really hits home with the 18-to-life demographic.”

To get a true picture of just how influential our man Fergie really has been, let’s look at what he’s accomplished:

In the 1920’s Fergie’s dad bought a radio and the first song to play over it was “Blue Yodel #4” by Jimmie Rodgers. Later Fergie’s dad watched Hank Williams on the barber shop’s TV set.

When Fergie was two, he lost his diaper and ran around outside the house with his neighbor, 2-year old Ray Stevens.

As an adolescent, Fergie and neighborhood chum little Johnny Paycheck would throw rocks at the pretty girls then go beat up their brothers.

Fergie went to high school with “straight-A-student” James Dean. The story holds that Fergie introduced James to the smoking area behind auto shop.

After dropping out of school, Fergie took his old guitar and his own personal beer endorsement that he “just came up with” and sat in with his pool hall buddies. While Fergie sat on the stage at gigs with his buddies Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis he would tell them what they “oughter be playin’.”

During the early 1950’s Fergie began writing many, let’s say, classics before their time. Among these many pre-cursory hits were “Heartbreak Motel,” “Roll Around the Clock,” “Seven Days on the Road,” the activist theme “(Hunka, Hunka) Burning Lung,” the psychedelic “Age of Sagittarius,” and the modern-day call-to-arms “Play That Country Music (White Boy).”

In 1968 Fergie traveled to Woodstock, West Virginia where he stayed at a Motel 6.

Most of the 1970’s Fergie drove around a lot.

In 1978 Fergie’s song “Stayin’ Alive But Starvin’ to Death” was played once at Studio 54 in New York City.

In 1983, Fergie was the first on his block to “volumize” his hair when one of the kids squirted the Brylcream tube all over the bathroom. Late for a gig, Fergie became a trend setter for the entire rock music industry that night.

Now finally, you can hear what the music industry has kept under wraps for so long. A Fergie project with his band The Steelheads. Always at the forefront of things to come, Fergie has graced listeners with this collection of songs specifically recorded for a group of people he considers heroes; long-haul truckers. In fact, The Ferg belts out a classic tune he showed his ole buddy Johnny Cash how to play “Drive, Drive, Drive.”

As properly expected “Drive, Drive, Drive” has been adopted by the most influential gal on radio today. Marcia Campbell, America’s Truckin’ Sweetheart of the Interstate Radio Network says of Fergie & The Steelheads “It’s refreshing to hear music with meaning. Hammerdown! Listen and be entertained by Fergie & The Steelheads with great trucking songs to which you can relate. Enjoy!”

Enjoy, indeed. Fergie, an American musical legend.

Product Description

Marcia Campbell is best-known as “The Trucker’s Sweetheart”. She’s the most popular radio personality riding the airwaves as far as truckers are concerned. Her nightly Nashville-based show is syndicated to include 85% of the U.S. after midnight.

Why do you need to know about Marcia Campbell? She has agreed to endorse the project FERGIE & THE STEELHEADS. In fact, Fergie’s version of the Johnny Cash classic “Drive, Drive, Drive” is Marcia’s theme song. She plays it every night and has built up quite a demand for the product now that it is available.

Fergie, a Johnny Cash protégé, has parlayed the success of the single “Drive, Drive, Drive” into a full project of trucking songs that includes other classics like “Widow Maker,” “Ramblin’ Fever” and “Six Days On The Road”.