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Red Simpson died on Thursday in Bakersfield, his hometown and the city so identified with a particular strain of country and western music that it was called the Bakersfield sound. He sang a lot about trucks and truck driving. Though not as well known outside of the trucker mob as Red Sovine, Dave Dudley and others, his "(Hello} I'm a Truck" is an all time trucker classic. Come to think of it, maybe his second tier status was because people thought he actually was a truck. Then again, he also sang about cops. Go figure.

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Listen:
Red Simpson - (Hello) I'm a Truck mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Red Simpson - Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves (streaming) at YouTube
Red Simpson - Johnny Law mp3 at Glorify the Turd
Red Simpson - The Highway Patrol mp3 at Glorify the Turd
Red Simpson and Junior Brown - Nitro Express mp3 at Big Rock Candy Mountain