Country music singer-songwriter and guitar player Claude King
passed away today at the age of 90. He had just celebrated his
67th wedding anniversary last month.
A native of Louisiana, King was best known for his 1962 hit
“Wolverton
Mountain” which became popular on both the country and rock n’
roll charts. Co-written with Merle Kilgore, the song was about
Kilgore’s uncle, Clifton Clowers who was lifelong resident of
Woolverton Mountain in Arkansas. And I mean lifelong. Clowers lived
until he was 102. Let’s just say Clowers didn’t think any man was
good enough for his daughters.