McCall is best remembered for "Convoy;" this talking-country novelty track shows the same deadpan humor and storyteller's twang. It's about a guy answering a newspaper ad for a '57 Chevy pickup, only to discover a jerry-rigged heap of scrap metal held together by hope and baling wire. The seller proudly rattles off its features — a bent shaft, a leaking rear end, a missing key ("use a nail as a starter,"), plus an ominous "whirrin' sound" — but other than that, it's "cherry." Naturally, the narrator buys it for twenty-eight bucks. Sonically, it's classic mid-'70s country kitsch: a shuffling beat, a little guitar chug, and McCall's dry, half-spoken delivery driving the joke home. It lands in the same comic lane as Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time," a lightweight but cheerful tall tale about a junker.
"A great song mutates, makes quantum leaps, turns up again like the prodigal son. It crosses genres. Could be punk rock, ragtime, folk-rock, or zydeco, and can be played in a lot of different styles, multiple styles... A great song is the sum of all things." - Bob Dylan
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