Vern Gosdin, a singer-songwriter whose “Chiseled in Stone” was named the Country Music Assn.’s song of the year in 1989, has died. He was 70. Gosdin died late Tuesday at a Nashville hospital ...

Singer Vern Gosdin, who recorded country music hits ... Association’s annual festival in June. Chiseled in Stone was voted 1989 song of the year by the CMA. In the tune, an older man tells ...

Singer Vern Gosdin, who recorded such country music ... Music Association's annual festival in June. Chiseled in Stone was voted 1989 song of the year by the CMA. In the tune, an older man tells ...

Though there is certainly great musicianship involved, the story a country song tells is usually what makes it more memorable than a specific piano run or guitar riff — the obvious exception ...

One of the best is one between Vern Gosdin and George Jones that wound up in a 1982 Merle Haggard/George Jones album. According to Gosdin, the song came out of a bet between he and Jones.

Singer Vern Gosdin, who recorded country music hits ... Association's annual festival in June. "Chiseled in Stone" was voted 1989 song of the year by the CMA. In the tune, an older man tells ...