Roger Sovine, a longtime BMI Nashville executive and influential figure in country music, has died at 82. Learn about his legacy, career milestones.

April 4, 1980: Musician Red Sovine died in Nashville. Sovine, born Woodrow Wilson Sovine in Charleston, gained country music fame for his recitations, especially those incorporating sentimental truck ...

Overdrive Radio · Songs of the Highway, No. 4: 'Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel,' by Red Sovine Released in 1977, it was one of Sovine’s last singles. It followed some of trucking’s biggest hits ...

Roger Wayne Sovine, longtime Vice President of BMI and visionary steward of Nashville's rise to becoming The Music City, passed away peacefully at Alive Hospice on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, ...

RED SOVINE songs and albums, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news.