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 ...
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 ...
With Halloween on the horizon, it might be a good time to unearth some of trucking’s ghostly tales. Perhaps the most famous “fictional” ghost story of the road of them all is Phantom 309 by the great ...