Versatile songwriter John D. Loudermilk died of a heart attack at his home in Christiana, Tennessee this past Wednesday. The 82-year-old songwriter's greatest success was in the 1960's and 1970's. In 1964 a band The Nashville Teens that was part of the British invasion had a killer version of Loudermilk's 'Tobacco Road'. John D. Loudermilk's most successful song was 'Indian Reservation' by Paul Revere & The Raiders went to #1 on the Billboard charts in 1971.

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