SIRIUS Satellite Radio has chosen music legend Charlie Daniels to be the voice of Road Dog Trucking, SIRIUS Channel 147. Charlie Daniels’ classic driving song "Road Dogs" will be the official theme song of the channel, and Daniels will make personal appearances throughout the year at various trucking industry events. Charlie will make an appearance today as the first guest on the new SIRIUS show, Carl P. Mayfield & the P-Team featuring Bubba Skynyrd.

Starting today, Carl P. Mayfield & the P-Team will air weekdays in the afternoon drive time slot from 4pm to 8pm ET. Mayfield is a Nashville broadcasting legend who has been a fixture on the radio, on WKDF and WSIX, for more than 25 years.

Another new show on the channel, Hammerdown Radio with DJ RigRocker, will also launch today and will air weekdays 2pm to 4pm ET. The show features a two-hour block of road music, presented by Road Dog Trucking program director Jeremy Tepper.  Tepper, AKA DJ RigRocker, is also format manager and morning host on channel 63 Outlaw Country, and is a foremost authority on the history of truck driving music.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio will broadcast a new interview with Bruce Springsteen this Sunday, April 23rd at 10am ET, where Springsteen discusses his upcoming album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, on SIRIUS Stars channel 102.

The interview will be rebroadcast on Monday, April 24th at 1pm and 7pm ET, and on Tuesday, April 25rd at 1pm ET, on channel 18, The Spectrum.

Springsteen’s new album features his interpretations of 13 traditional songs associated with folk artist Pete Seeger, and will be released on Tuesday, April 25th.

No, not Don Imus you silly goose. Fred Imus, brother to Don Imus and famed country music DJ, is joining SIRIUS Satellite Radio to host Fred’s Trailer Park Bash. The weekly country music program will launch on Saturday, May 6th and will be broadcast each Saturday from 6am - 10am ET SIRIUS Outlaw Country (channel 63).

Imus will broadcast his show from his trailer in Tucson, Arizona. He will continue to appear as a regular guest on his brother Don Imus’ syndicated radio program Imus in the Morning, which is also broadcast on MSNBC.

 

GRAMMY-nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland will launch her own radio show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.

Copeland, described as “one of the best singers in modern blues” by the Chicago Tribune, will host Shemekia Copeland’s Blues Show, starting on Saturday, April 22nd, from 1pm - 7pm ET on SIRIUS Blues channel 74.

Shemekia Copeland will draw upon her life in the blues to share with SIRIUS listeners. The daughter of late Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland, Shemekia first performed onstage with him as a child, and then joined him on tour as a singer at age 16.

Jimmy Buffett fans can enjoy every concert on his upcoming “Party at the End of the World” tour starting on April 18th, because SIRIUS Satellite Radio will broadcast each show live on SIRIUS' Radio Margaritaville channel.

SIRIUS will include a special 30-minute pre-show broadcast from backstage, featuring pre-show music and interviews with Buffett or members of his Coral Reefer Band.

Check out all 19 scheduled shows taking place between April 18th - August 12 after the jump.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio's GLBT channel, Sirius OutQ, will be debuting Erasure's new album - Union Street - exclusively at 10am ET, today April 6th (yes, that's a few minutes from now).

If you miss it, wipe away those tears, because encore broadcasts will be on Saturday, April 8th and Sunday, April 9th at 11:00 am ET, only on Sirius OutQ channel 106.