Red Sovine
- MatchRed Sovine
- 100%C.W. McCall
- 67%Mel McDaniel
- 51%Dave Dudley
- 44%Del Reeves
- 43%Johnny Horton
- 42%Dick Curless
- 41%Gene Watson
- 40%Jerry Reed
- 35%George Jones
- 33%Ed Bruce
Biography
Woodrow Wilson Sovine, 17 July 1918, Charleston, West Virginia, USA, d. 4 April 1980, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sovine was taught the guitar by his mother and was working professionally by the time he was 17 on WCHS Charleston with Johnny Bailes (Bailes Brothers), and then as part of Jim Pikes Carolina Tarheels. In 1948 Sovine formed his own band, The Echo Valley Boys, and became a regular on The Louisiana Hayride. Sovine acquired the nickname of The Old Syrup Sopper... Read more