Prime Movers (Slim Dusty album)

Prime Movers is a compilation album released by Australian country music singer Slim Dusty. The album was released in July 2016 and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA charts.

Prime Movers
Compilation album by Slim Dusty
Released	15 July 2016
Genre	Country
Label	EMI Music
Slim Dusty chronology
The Den Tapes (2015) Prime Movers (2016) Slim and I (2020)

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.[1] In March 2007, a 3-disc Slim Dusty compilation titled Pubs, Trucks & Plains was released which peaked at number 20 onto ARIA Charts and was certified gold. This single disc version makes all of Slim Dusty's best trucking songs available on one disc.[2]

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."[1]

Track listing

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

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3]	43

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalogue
Various	15 July 2016 [4][2]	CD digital download	Slim Dusty Enterprises, EMI Music	4788793

References

1. "Slim Dusty Prime Movers Review". KixCountry. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
2. "Prime Movers (CD)". JB HiFi. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
3. "Australiancharts.com – Slim Dusty – Prime Movers". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
4. "Prime Movers DD". Apple Music. Retrieved 13 April 2020.