NEW YORK — John D. Loudermilk, a country singer and prolific ... and “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and the Raiders, died Wednesday at his home in Christiana, Tenn.

John D. Loudermilk, the writer of numerous pop and ... among many others. But it is the 1971 Paul Revere & the Raiders recording of his “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee ...

If brevity is the soul of wit, he also found it to be the path to songwriting success. But John Loudermilk’s best work hasn’t lost a thing. In particular, that means “Tobacco Road,” a song ...

The faster I went, the further out they’d go.” That’s how legendary songwriter John D. Loudermilk remembers the Bull City of his boyhood. Legendary, indeed: In June, the Country Music Hall ...

As classic American songs go, songwriter John D. Loudermilk’s gritty “Tobacco Road” is among the most revered and widely recorded, with the hard-charging 1964 hit version by a band of Brits ...

John D. Loudermilk, 82, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the author of enduring songs such as "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," "Tobacco Road" and "Indian Reservation," has died.

John D. Loudermilk, a singer and songwriter who wrote pop and country songs such as “Tobacco Road” and “Indian Reservation,” has died. He was 82. His son, Mike Loudermilk, said that his ...