Vern Gosdin (aged 74), whose "Chiseled in Stone" became a classic in country music and was known simply as "the Voice," recently suffered a stroke and died on Tuesday in a Nashville hospital.A native of Woodland, Alabama, Gosdin idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. Nicknamed "The Voice," 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. Some of these scored hits in the 1970s and 1980s, included "Set 'em Up Joe," "I'm Still Crazy," "That Just About Does It," "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)," "Today My World Slipped Away," "Slow Burning Memory," "This Ain't My First Rodeo," "Way Down Deep" and "I Can Tell By The Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)." He and Rex, who died in 1983, moved to California and joined the bluegrass group the Golden State Boys. The duo later had a country hit in 1967 with "Hangin' On."
In 1972, he moved to Atlanta, raised a family, operated a business and performed sporadically in local clubs. His career resumed in 1976 with the help of old friend Emmylou Harris, who spearheaded a revival of more traditional country music.
Gosdin's "Chiseled in Stone" won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1989. He finished his career with three #1’s and two certified gold albums.
You can hear him sing his classic “Chiseled In Stone” here…
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