Red Simpson, singer-songwriter well-known for such classic trucking songs as “Roll, Truck, Roll,” “(Hello) I’m a Truck,” “Nitro Express” and many others, died Friday, January 8, in Bakersfield, Calif.

Truck driver Phillip Clayton, from Scottsboro, Alabama, grew up listening to Red Simpson’s trucking songs while riding around with his father. When he was offered the opportunity to design a 2005 ...

Bakersfield Sound legend Red Simpson died Jan. 8 at age 81 after suffering a heart attack weeks before. Scott B. Bomar, a Grammy-nominated writer and researcher who produced the five-CD box set "Hello ...