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Entertainment Beat<br />
[Greatest Hits]<br />
Remembering ‘The Midnight Cowboy’: Bill Mack<br />
rode shotgun with truckers for six decades<br />
By Kris Rutherford<br />
Courtesy: Pat DeBarbera via the Bill Mack “The Midnight Cowboy” Memorial Facebook Page<br />
At 88 years old, Bill Mack died on July 31 from complications associated with COVID-19.<br />
Throughout his career he was a songwriter, musician, cartoonist, author, DJ and a friend to<br />
truck drivers across the country.<br />
Bill Mack’s connection with truck drivers<br />
came naturally. Not only was Mack’s sion, and early versions of semitrucks<br />
the famed highway during the Depres-<br />
father a truck driver, but Mack was born traveled westward through downtown<br />
in Shamrock, Texas, in 1932, during<br />
Shamrock. Mack made a 60-year career<br />
the depths of the Great Depression.<br />
Shamrock was one of many towns that<br />
of his relationship with truck drivers who<br />
flourished during the heyday of Route listened to the radio during the overnight<br />
66. Thousands of “Arkies,” “Okies” and hours that coincided with Mack’s preferred<br />
time slot.<br />
other Americans flocked to California via<br />
16 TRUCKER’S CONNECTION www.TruckersConnection.com
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