HE PACKED 40 YEARS OF HEARTBREAK INTO 101 SONGS. LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, “THE VOICE” WAS GONE. “He never quit writing songs.” In 1998, Vern Gosdin suffered a stroke. Most men would have stopped. Vern didn’t. He kept writing. Kept recording. Kept being the man Tammy Wynette once said could stand next to George Jones. By 2008, he had gathered it all into 40 Years of the Voice — 101 songs across four discs. Heartbreak. Honky-tonks. Divorce. Regret. Every kind of pain Vern had ever made sound honest