Album Review: The Naked Trucker and T-Bones – ‘Live at the Troubadour’

By Jeff Swindoll May 3, 2007, 18:33 GMT

Now the audience appears to be having a good time and laughing it up but I can’t say that I had the good time that they did. It’s not really a comedy performance but the fellas perform a number of songs with a few bits of business in between.

The Naked Trucker and his buddy Gerald “T-Bones” Tibbons have a show on Comedy Central.  I’ve not watched it, but on occasion I caught the beginning when I DVR’d the Sarah Silverman Program.  It seemed like a required taste with T-Bones seeming like a mentally retarded cousin of Larry the Cable Guy. 

On the show, Dave Allen plays Naked Trucker and David Koechner plays T-Bones.  Yes, Naked Trucker is a…(wait for it) naked trucker who fortunately has a guitar strategically placed over his naughty bits.  T-Bones is a seemingly mentally retarded hick with a bad comb-over and lamb chop sideburns who appears drunk, high, or both most of the time.

This CD is a live musical performance of theirs at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California.  Now the audience appears to be having a good time and laughing it up but I can’t say that I had the good time that they did.  It’s not really a comedy performance but the fellas perform a number of songs with a few bits of business in between. 

I will admit that “Hobo Holiday (2 Dollars)” made me laugh but most didn’t get more than a grin from me.  They do perform “Gin & Juice,” “Ballad of the Naked Trucker,” “My Daddy is an Astronaut (T-Bones’ mama tells him his daddy is Buzz Aldrin to explain why he doesn’t have one, grin),” and “My American Dream.” 

I think some of those appear on the show, but since I don’t watch it I’m not sure.  Perhaps an acquired taste, but those that like the Comedy Central show will want to pick it up. 

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