NASHVILLE — 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 ...

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, ... Loudermilk played the song on air, fellow North Carolina native George Hamilton IV picked it up and turned into a Top 10 pop hit in 1956. Although Loudermilk would ...

• More photos of Loudermilk “Durham during the ’40s and the ’50s was a kid on a bicycle with shorts and no shoes. And I had the bicycle to beat all bicycles. A yellow bicycle with chrome ...

John D. Loudermilk, a prolific Nashville songwriter whose best-known songs, “Tobacco Road” and “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye,” were covered hundreds of times and evoked heartache and a ...

It’s a typical scene for John D. Loudermilk. He enjoys his role as unofficial guidance counselor for young songwriters. “Look, just bring me a tape of your best song tomorrow, and I’ll ...

But John Loudermilk’s best work hasn’t lost a thing. In particular, that means “Tobacco Road,” a song he wrote in 1960 but that hit the charts in 1964 when the Nashville Teens recorded it.

John D. Loudermilk, the writer of numerous pop and country hits, including “Tobacco Road,” “Indian Reservation,” “Abilene” and “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye,” died Wednesday ...

Songwriter John D. Loudermilk called it quits this past week at the age of 82. But man was he a master of songcraft, of disguised defiance and blinky humor, and building on the musical bones ...

John D. Loudermilk has died. ... recorded the song in 1956 and scored a Top 10 hit on the pop charts. Just months later, the Tennessean reports, Eddie Cochran, a rock 'n' roll act, ...

NEW YORK — John D. Loudermilk, a country singer and prolific songwriter whose dozens of hits in the 1960s and ’70s included “Tobacco Road” by the Nashville Teens, “Then You Can Tell Me ...