The Naked Trucker Show
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| The Naked Trucker Show | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Genre(s) | Country rock | |
| Website | Official website | |
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| Dave (Gruber) Allen David Koechner |
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The Naked Trucker Show (or The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show) is a live musical comedy act. They are frequently seen as an act at the Largo nightclub. The two "frontmen" of the band, The Naked Trucker and Gerald "T-Bones" Tibbons are played by actors Dave (Gruber) Allen and David Koechner (respectively). The show consists of catchy songs and long, humorous stories of life on the road.
The Naked Trucker sings and plays guitar, usually wearing nothing more than his red hat and boots. He's a coffee-fueled long-haul trucker, who embraces his own nudity as the ultimate example of American freedom. T-Bones is a freeloading drifter who's rarely seen without his ball peen hammer or bottle of sweet wine. Often underestimated, T-Bones surprises many, including Trucker, with his cunning and depth of knowledge.
The band has performed live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as well as Real Time with Bill Maher. They also have played various dates with Tenacious D.
Their signature song is "American Dream", which features a unique description of an ideal America. T-Bones also sings "My Daddy Is An Astronaut," a tragicomic tale of his fatherless childhood believing that Neil Armstrong is his dad.
The Naked Trucker show has been picked up by the Comedy Central channel for 8 episodes. The television show is a combination of live performances and pre-taped segments highlighting stories from their travels. It will premiere at 10:30 on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007.
