Sheffield s song, he says, is about what it can sometimes feel like to to be over the road. The 52-year-old OTR reefer hauler began singing as a child in church and wrote his first song at around 15-16 years old.
Tennessee-based driver John Malayter won the 2020
Overdrive-Red Eye Radio s Trucker Talent Search. In his finals competition, he performed a song he wrote about missing home, “Take Me Back to Tennessee,” which he penned before he began truck driving.Todd DillsTen singing drivers have made it to the semi-finals of the
Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search, now in its eighth year.
Their video entries offer a glimpse of the voices and instrumental skills of the competitors.
Overdrive will publish brief profiles of the 10 this month before announcing the three finalists.
Those three will compete for the top spot by performing another song.
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