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Though he had a long, distinguished career in country music, singer/songwriter and guitarist Red Sovine is best remembered for his earnest, funny, and at times highly sentimental recitations that took the cab of an over-the-road truck for their settings
Red Steagall has had three overlapping careers in the space of little more than 30 years and can take credit for discovering one great country talent, Reba McEntire As a songwriter he’s been responsible for over 200 compositions, several of which have become hits in the hands of other performers
The Red Stick Ramblers are a diverse group of six men who can play the haunting and heart-tugging traditional Cajun music of generations past and make it just as enjoyable and memorable for today’s youth as it is for their grandparents
Billing itself as “The Best of Country Swing,” the Red Willow Band recorded two albums for Lost Records in the late ’70s and established a loyal following in South Dakota, the band’s home base
Singer Redd Stewart formed several bands in and around Louisville, KY, in the 1930s with moderate success before meeting and teaming up with a brash young accordionist and bandleader named Pee Wee King and achieving widespread popularity
Volkaert is best known to country audiences as being the lead guitarist since 1997 for Merle Haggard’s band the Strangers Prior to that in the ’90s, he had done sessions in Nashville for artists like Ray Price, Clinton Gregory, Dale Watson, and Lacy J
The contemporary country duo of Allison Redmon and Tina Vale joined forces in 1997, meeting through a mutual friend who originally joined the two women in a short-lived vocal trio
Singer/songwriter Rees Shad debuted in 1996 with Anderson, Ohio The Riggley Road Stories, a combination CD/book package, followed two years later ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
The story of Reggie Young’s career is, in many ways, a miniature version of the story of Southern soul music Raised in Memphis and influenced by the Delta blues, Young’s musical education came at the hands of Dewey Phillips’ Red Hot & Blue radio show, where he soaked up the sounds of Ike & Tina Turner and a young Elvis Presley
Traditional country singer Rena Gaile was twice nominated for RPM Magazine’s Big Country Awards category of Outstanding New Artist The first honor came in 1993 after the release of “Daddy’s School