Vern Gosdin
USA
Born: 05 August 1934
Died: 28 April 2009
Genres: Country
Styles: Progressive Bluegrass, Bluegrass, Progressive Country, Traditional Bluegrass, Traditional Country, Contemporary Country, Neo-Traditionalist Country, Honky Tonk
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As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit. Sometimes he was known simply as "the Voice." Born in Woodland, AL, Vern Gosdin idolized the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called the Gosdin Brothers. When he was in his late teens, his family moved to Birmingham and began hosting The Gosdin Family Gospel Show on a local radio stat...
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