Guy Archer, a company driver for Airgas USA, has been selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition. He submitted a cover of Kenny Chesney’s “Anything but Mine,” which he says is one of his favorite songs because of its story and melody.
Archer, 50, says he has been a rock-and-roll fan most of his life, but after a trip with his wife to Nashville in 2018 to see the Loretta Lynn birthday concert in 2018, “I discovered I enjoyed country more than I thought.”
He adds that he has been trying to “sing properly” for roughly the past eight years. He says his dream is to be a songwriter.
Archer has been driving a truck for 28 years. He drives mostly within a 300-mile radius of his Dayton, Ohio, hometown, hauling liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen and liquid argon.
