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These are three of the best country songs that came out in 1965, which still make me smile when I listen to them today.
It's raining, you're broke, and you've been standing on the shoulder with your thumb out for a long time. Then a big rig ...
Before "Why Baby Why," Jones had released five singles on the Starday label, all recorded in home studios. This time, he recorded at Gold Star Studios in Houston with professional session musicians, ...
There’s an eternal link between country music and trucks. Some examples include Buck Owens’ “Truck-Drivin’ Man” (1956) and Luke Bryan’s 2007 single “We Rode in Trucks.” On this day (Jan. 18) in 1966, ...
With a split vote Wednesday afternoon, the Washington County Board of Education approved David T. Sovine as the school system's next superintendent. Sovine has been superintendent of Frederick County ...
April 4, 1980: Musician Red Sovine died in Nashville. Sovine, born Woodrow Wilson Sovine in Charleston, gained country music fame for his recitations, especially those incorporating sentimental truck ...
Overdrive Radio · Songs of the Highway, No. 4: 'Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel,' by Red Sovine Released in 1977, it was one of Sovine’s last singles. It followed some of trucking’s biggest hits ...
For Charley Pride to present himself as a country singer at a Montana radio station in December 1963 was an audacious move. By Tom Roland For Charley Pride to present himself as a country singer at a ...
That year, only Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind grossed more at the box office than the trucker action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit, which gave Jerry Reed a top 10 hit with his theme ...
Red Simpson, an architect of the Bakersfield Sound with contemporaries Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and a champion of truck drivers, has died after suffering a heart attack in December. He was 81. Of ...