''Prime Movers'' is a compilation album released by Australian

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

singer

Slim Dusty Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, ...

. The album was released in July 2016 and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA charts.

Background and release

Over his career Slim Dusty recorded 80 plus original Aussie 'trucking' songs and his six standalone trucking albums achieved sales well in excess of half a million copies. In March 2007, a 3-disc Slim Dusty compilation titled ''

Pubs, Trucks & Plains ''Pubs, Trucks & Plains'' is a 3-CD set, compilation album released by Australian country music singer Slim Dusty. The album was released in March 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his single "A Pub with No Beer"; which was the biggest-se ...

'' was released which peaked at number 20 onto

ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...

and was certified gold. This single disc version makes all of Slim Dusty's best trucking songs available on one disc.

Reception

Kix Country said "''Prime Movers'' is a best of style collection of 20 of Slim's classic trucking songs and is the ideal quick fix for any truckie, or even a quick way for the uninitiated to understand the great Aussie truckie psyche."

Track listing

# "No Good Truckin' Man" - 2:30 # "Bent-Axle Bob" (credited to Slim Dusty and The Travelling Country Band) - 2:47 # "Under the Spell of Highway One" - 3:40 # "Pushin' Time" (featuring The Travelling Country Band) - 2:54 # "Long Black Road" - 3:18 # "Names Upon the Wall" - 3:19 # "Gotta Keep Moving" - 3:11 # "Truckin's in My Blood" (credited to Slim Dusty and The Travelling Country Band) - 3:10 # "Dieseline Dreams" - 3:22 # "The Lady Is a Truckie" - 3:31 # "Rolling Down the Road" - 4:06 # "Kelly's Offsider" - 3:24 # "Star Trucker" - 4:13 # "Highway One" - 3:07 # "Something in the Pilliga" - 4:00 # "Trucks Tarps and Trailers" - 3:28 # "Sally (The Girl on Channel 8)" - 4:07 # "Mechanised Swaggie" - 3:16 # "Lights on the Hill" (credited to Slim Dusty and The Travelling Country Band) - 3:03 # "One Truckie's Epitaph" (credited to Slim Dusty and The Travelling Country Band) - 3:33

Charts

Release history

References

Slim Dusty albums 2016 albums Compilation albums by Australian artists EMI Records albums {{2010s-country-album-stub