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By Mike Copeland
Tribune-Herald staff writer
Willie’s Place is not Willie’s place anymore.
Travel Centers of America will turn the iconic truck stop at Carl’s Corner north of Hillsboro into a Petro Stopping Center for motorists. Country music legend Willie Nelson and partners opened Willie’s Place there in 2008. It served as a combination fuel stop, saloon, gift shop and performance hall.
Leroy Van Dyke lives just outside of Sedalia Missouri and that makes it easy for him to sing at the Missouri State fair this week in Sedalia. In fact the fairgrounds has a street named after Leroy Van Dyke.
Many of our visitors are looking for truck driving songs. Just as important are true stories about truck drivers. This is one of them:
From the desk of Tracy Pitcox: Johnny Bush was born in the blue-collar neighborhood of Kashmere Gardens in Houston, Texas. Bush listened to the western swing music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the honky-tonk sounds of artists like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Thompson.
Texas Country Music entertainer Joe Paul Nichols passed away on Wednesday morning at his home near Jacksboro, Texas. He was 69. Nichols had been battling Lou Gerhig’s disease for four years.
This is Tommy Collins performing a song written by Wynn Stewart. “It’s Too Much Like Lonesome Since You’re Gone” was originally recorded on January 17, 1967 at Columbia Studios in Nashville.






