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 ...

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.

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 ...

More than 100 locals poured into Rasmussen Senior Center in Oildale on Monday morning to celebrate the birthday of Red Simpson, the late Bakersfield Sound country music pioneer who died in 2016. The ...

One of the originators of the Bakersfield sound, Red Simpson, was honored with a plaque at the Rasmussen Senior Center Monday. The plaque is the first in a series planned by Citizens Preserving ...

In loving memory of ‘RED’ SIMPSON, a precious and wonderful husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, on his 81st birthday. We love and miss you more with every passing day. Peggie, David, ...