Deep-voiced country singer Bill Fries, known as CW McCall, who turned an ad campaign for an Iowa bread company into the outlaw trucker anthem “Convoy,” which hit #1 on the charts in 1976 and inspired a Sam Peckinpah movie. died Friday at his home in Ouray, Colo. He was 93 years old. His death was …

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