Jun 10, 2021
“Overdrive’s Music to Truck By” is a regular Friday morning program that can easily be streamed from TheBluegrassJamboree.com.This Friday will be a time for reminiscences on “
Overdrive’s Music to Truck By: Today’s tunes from the men and women behind the wheel” as host Big Al Weekley highlights musicians George Riddle and George Jones.
Riddle died Sunday in Indianapolis, Weekley said. He was 78.
“George Riddle was a great friend of mine in later years,” Weekley said. “He founded George Jones touring band, The Jones Boys, and wrote and recorded several well-known tunes, including She s Lonesome Again. ”
Fifty-eight years ago today (March 5, 1963) was a tragic day for the country music community: It was on that date that Patsy Cline, along with Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, was killed in a plane crash while on her way home from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kan.
Although she was ill with the flu, Cline performed three shows at Kansas City s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on March 3, to raise money for the family of DJ Jack Cactus Call, who had been killed in a car crash that January. Also among the performers at the benefit shows were Hawkins, Copas, George Jones, George Riddle and the Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, George McCormick and the Clinch Mountain Boys.