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 ...
“Thank God for truckers,” President Trump said last month at a White House event honoring truck drivers and their pivotal response to Covid-19. “You’re America’s heroes,” Transportation Secretary ...
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 ...
Some truck stops still carry a few old cassettes of truck-driving songs and backwoods country humor. Finding good compilations of Dave Dudley, Del Reeves and Dick Curless songs, however, is as tough ...