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 all the subgenres of country music, the truck-driving songs might be the most unique, as they romanticized…

Source: RollingStone
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