Don Gibson has been played on NTS in shows including Country Hayride, featured first on 19 November 2017. Songs played include Sea Of Heartbreak, Blue, Blue Day and It's A Long, Long Way To Georgia.

Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American country musician.

Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina into a poor working-class family, he dropped out of school in the second grade.

Gibson's first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948. Among his greatest hits were "Oh Lonesome Me" (later recorded by both Ray Charles and Neil Young) and…