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Appeared in 1991 Bette Midler movie For the Boys. Band later became TV fixture on series Nashville Star, Next Great American Band, Can You Duet, CMT’s Next Superstar, Nashville. Dobkins, Carl – 4/8 DeBoer, Tony – 5/20 Known as “Suzabelle,” the hoop-skirted Southern greeter at Opryland USA. Jackson, Wade – 1/14 Began career in Louvin Brothers band 1958. Songwriter who co-wrote 9 of his hits, plus songs for Jo Dee Messina (“My Give a Damn’s Busted” 2005), Holly Dunn (“There Goes My Heart Again” 1989), Tim McGraw (“Memory Lane” 1993), Conway Twitty (“I’m the Only Thing I’ll Hold Against You” 1993), Hank Thompson (“Love on the Rocks” 1988), others. Founding member Palomino Road (“Why Baby Why” 1993). GLENN RAY, 82, died June 11. Own firm Chart Attack 1984-97 (promoting B.J. All sales on March 3, 2021 on the I Believe In Nashville website will be put in a fund for service workers. One-woman show My Name Is Fibby. Backer of Nashville’s Grand Masters Fiddle Championship. Designer of “Fearless Memories” jewelry line. Co-owner of Curve recording studio in East Tennessee. Other stars who received career boosts from Pride include Milsap, Trini Triggs, Exile, Janie Fricke, Paisley, Wariner. Produced Sam the Sham & The Pharaoh’s “Wooly Bully” & other hits. Accounting manager of the Americana Music Association. Rave reviews in New York Times, Stereo Review, USA Today, L.A. Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Enquirer, etc. 1 hit “Don’t Take the Girl.” Usually billed as “Craig J. Martin,” he entertained at Nashville Shores, Listening Room Café, Maxwell House Hotel, etc, & released singles “I Have a Dream,” “Let Him Walk You Home,” “I’m a Kid in Trouble.” Wrote songs for George Jones, Southern Comfort, Rod Stewart, Backstreet Boys, others. Hosted TV shows Brotherhood Outdoors (Sportsman Channel), Til Death Do Us Part (CarbonTV0, Backstage and Backroads (Sportsman Channel). Label executive, record producer, song publisher. Headquarters now on Charlotte with branches in Madison and Murfreesboro, plus Bowling Green, Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky. Harold’s comedic alter ego led parody group, Lester “Roadhog” Moran & Cadillac Cowboys. King, Buddy – 8/21 Following failed baseball career, turned to country music 1965. Shane, Bob – 1/26 Built the Music Row office building that has housed GAC and RFD-TV. Recorded for Columbia in jazz combo Bobby Doyle Three (1962). Songwriter, was known for penning songs including Billy Currington’s “People Are Crazy” and “Pretty Good at Drinkin’ Beer.”. MAC DAVIS, 78, died Sept. 29. In 1980, There’s a Little Bit of Hank in Me, tribute album to Hank Williams spawned back-to-back No. Last surviving member of original Kingston Trio. Hludzik, Jerry – 4/12 Opened Great Escape 1977 on Broadway near Vanderbilt. ... We anticipate serving 40,000 gifts to 16,000 children through our 2020 Angel Tree … Founder of The Bar D Wranglers, the cowboy band at the Bar D Chuckwagon Supper attraction near Durango, Colardo since 1969. Earlier careers as hit songwriter, recording artist, manager, publisher, record producer, song plugger, record-label executive, studio owner. Peaceful marches were followed by riots at Public Square Park and Broadway. Columinist for Outdoor Amusement Business Association (2007-2019). Death due to COVID-19-related pneumonia. Don & Harold Reid co-authored history of group Random Memories (2008). Adam, Biff – 3/7 Country & gospel singer. Smith Top 10 R&B hit with Davis song “Daddy’s Little Man” 1969. Rockabilly Hall of Fame member. via wikigb.com Feed https://ift.tt/3oXgwRG. Philanthropist for cancer research, muscular dystrophy research, farmers aid, military causes. – 3/22 Drummer for Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, etc. Issued 20 albums, charted 40+ singles, five Gold Records & two Platinum. Biggest hits thereafter “Honky Tonk Attitude” (1993), “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox” (1993), “John Deere Green” (1994), “Third Rock from the Sun” (1994), “Pickup Man” (1994, later Ford Truck national ad jingle), “I’m in Love with a Capital U” (1995), “Bigger Than the Beatles” (1996), “C-O-U-N-T-R-Y” (1996). Four Gold Records, two Platinum albums. Solar, plus Bobby Wills, Rachael Turner, others. Ingram, Kenny – 7/26 Cuts by Cash, Kristofferson, Willie (“I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train”), Elvis, Patty Loveless, George Jones, Tex Ritter, Tennessee Ernie, Bare (“Ride Me Down Easy”), Waylon (“Honky Tonk Heroes,” “Black Rose,” “You Asked Me To”), Mark Chesnutt, Jerry Lee, Confederate Railroad, BRr-49, Commander Cody, Rodriguez (“I Couldn’t Be Me Without You”), John Anderson (“I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal”), Stonewall Jackson, Lewis Family, Marty Stuart, Tom Jones, Widespread Panic, David Allan Coe, Tom T. (“Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me”), Allmans, Alison Krauss, etc. Award-winning bluegrass guitarist, songwriter, tenor vocalist. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, national tour of The Color Purple, Gil Scott-Heron, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Springsteen, Albert King, Pennsylvania Opera Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater plus Broadway tours of Phantom of the Opera, Showboat, Hairspray, West Side Story, Anything Goes, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Full Monty, Spring Awakening, etc. RICHARD PRYOR, 57, died April 24. Elected to Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame 1982, Texas Music Hall of Fame 1995, Texas Country Music Hall of Fame 1999. McEuen, Bill – 9/24 Actor in TV series Evening Shade, Paradise, and films The Thing Called Love, Poisoned by Love. Songs also recoded by Ricky Godfrey, George Strait, Sugarbees, Jeff Hunt. Prince, Thomas – 7/25 Pryor, Richard – 4/24 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, 38, died Aug. 23. Ray, Glenn – 6/11 CHARLEY PRIDE, 86, died Dec. 12. Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame member. Sold stores 2017 to focus on The Great Escape Music Group, including three publishing companies and Great Escape Records, which has had some success in bluegrass. Dolly plays an angel in the movie and she told the little girl, 'I just saved your life!' Act won country Grammy with her co-written “Fairytale” single 1974. ACM’s 2013 Guitar Player of the Year. Joined ABC Radio Networks (1996-99). In 1992-91, Davis starred on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies. Broke through on country charts with Jack Clement compositions “Just Between You and Me” (1966) and “I Know One” (1967). ... and provide presents to 52,000 children through the Angel Tree program. Tally Records had original 1966 version of “Apartment No. Tree of Forgiveness (2018) his highest-charting album, nominated for three Grammys. Howard, Jan – 3/28 Master of ceremonies for 44 years at Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention. Gospel LP God’s Beautiful City recorded in Nashville 1979. Gospel great as vocalist, songwriter, record producer, TV producer. JOHN DENNY, 79, died July 21. Kesler, Stan – 10/26 (Birth name: Richard Penniman). Drummer in Bobby Pierce & The Nashville Sounds (1966-72) and in Bob Luman’s band (1972-76), both with lifelong friend Buddy Cannon. Songwriter with cuts by Twitty (“You Put it There”), Strait (“Neon Row”), Neal McCoy (“Why Not Tonight”). Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award & NATD Career Achievement honor 2017. Pride’s 1972 hit “All His Children” theme song for Paul Newman movie Sometimes a Great Notion nominated for an Oscar & Pride sang it on Academy Awards. Other co-writers Doc Severinsen, Billy Strange, Mark James, Delaney Bramlett, Shel Silverstein (“Tequila Sheila” by Bobby Bare 1980), etc. Pennington recording artist on King, Capitol, Monument, MRC, Step One labels. Also heavily invested in Dallas real estate, banking. EAST NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The tornado that hit Nashville on March 3, 2020 spared a key landmark. Label also recorded solo singles by Bonnie Owens, plus Harlan Howard, Cousin Herb Henson, Cliff Crofford, Bill Carter, George Rich, Abe Mulkey, etc. In 1970-71, Campbell hit with “Everything a Man Could Ever Need,” Kenny Rogers hit with “Something’s Burning,” Bobby Goldsboro hit with “Watching Scotty Grow.” Songs also recorded by Cash, Conway, Tammy, Merle, Andy Williams, Tom Jones, Bobby Blue Bland etc. Previously solo artist on Carlyle Records with CD Dream State, staff writer for MTM, lead guitarist for Brothers Phelps, Randy Travis. Some recorded with Pride, as did Oaks, Tanya, Garth, Dolly. Demo singer for hits “I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You” (Ricky Van Shelton), “Born Country” (Alabama), “You Don’t Count the Cost” (Billy Dean), “I Cross My Heart” (Strait). Label issued singles by Kent Westbury, Bobby Sykes, Scotty Stoneman, Rusty Adams, Chris Gantry, Jimmy Smart, Max D. Barnes, Ruthie Steele, Audie Ashworth, etc. CMA’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Event manager for Nissan, TPAC, T.J. Martell, Warners, Parnelli Awards. (real name: Carmine Orrico). Co-founder of the ACM. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nearly twice as many homicides have been reported in Nashville so far this year compared to the same time period in 2020… CY SCARBOROUGH, 93, died May 19. Name-checked in title of instrumental “Biff Bam Boom” on LP Presenting My Friends, The Strangers (1970). The mural is painted in three locations around the city, in 12 South, Marathon Village and East Nashville. Returned to record promotion repping Warner comedy acts. Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame 2009. Elvis recorded his “A Little Less Conversation,” “Memories,” “In the Ghetto,” “Don’t Cry Daddy” 1968-70. EDDIE LUNN JR., 70, died Jan. 29. Also in Sammy Kershaw’s band. Billingsley, Jane Dorris – 6/15 More than 200 roles included teen-idol films Running Wild (195), Rock Pretty Baby (1956); A-list comedies This Happy Feeling (1958), The Reluctant Debutante (1958); westerns The Unforgiven (1960), Death of a Gunfighter (1969); martial-arts flicks Enter the Dragon (1973) etc. On records by Jerry Lee, Orbison, Carl Perkins, Miller Sisters, etc. Songwriter and record producer whose credits include Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” and Lori McKenna’s “Wreck You.”. (full name: Desray Anne Zamek). Produced all-star 2005 album Mad Dogs & Okies including Clapton, Vince Gill, J.J. Cale, Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson, Tony Joe White, Bonnie Bramlett, others. Donate $250,000 To Animal Shelters, Lindsay Ell, Brett Kissel, Tenille Townes, More Nominated For 2021 Juno Awards, Entertainment Attorney Brenner McDonald Joins McGlinchey Stafford’s Nashville Office, Mandy Barnett Shoots For The Stars With New Billie Holiday Tribute Album, Grammy-Winning Female Engineer Launches We Are Moving the Needle Foundation, Matt Stell, Jameson Rodgers, Ray Fulcher Set For Musicians On Call Livestream Benefit, ASCAP Overcomes Pandemic Challenges To Collect $1.327 Billion in 2020, Scott Sexton Upped To Director Of Publicity, Logan DeLoye Promoted At 2911 Media, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Study Reveals No ‘Meaningful’ Change For Women In Recorded Music. DICK THRALL, 90, died May 14. Mack, Bill – 7/31 Produced Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dickens, Jerry Wallace, etc. Returned to Music City to re-record hits for K-Tel Records 1976. Former hair stylist, personal assistant, property manager, tour coordinator for Dolly. Multi-instrumentalist on guitar, fiddle, harmonica, mandolin. Nashville pop recording artist whose big hit was 1959’s “My Heart Is an Open Book.” Also charted with Decca singles “If You Don’t Want My Lovin’” (1959), “Lucky Devil” (1959), “Exclusively Yours” (1960). Barbara Mandrell, who had scored a 1982 #1 C&W hit with Brasfield's "Till You're Gone", recorded "Angel in Your Arms" in June 1985 in Nashville to serve as an advance single from the album Get to the Heart, marking the first newly recorded release by Mandrell after her 11 September 1984 automobile accident. King, Thom – 4/24 Produced, published and/or promoted more than 150 hits. Developed Young Executive Building with Faron Young. Capps, Jimmy – 6/2 Also produced comedian’s million-selling 1978 hit single “King Tut,” as well as movies The Jerk, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Man With Two Brains, The Lonely Guy, etc. RAY PENNINGTON, 86, died Oct. 7. Also tours and hits in Belgium, England, Mexico, Guam, Philippines, Japan, Korea, China. Delozier, Jimmie – 1/31 Formed own Tried and True label 1986, becoming model of do-it-yourself career control. Into national Songwriters Hall of Fame 2006. Other albums Greatest Hits: Songs From an Aging Sex Bomb (1993), My Roots Are Showing (1996), Live Close By, Visit Often (2001), Simply (2015). Rogers, Kenny – 3/20 Darrow, Chris – 1/15 Pursell, Bill – 9/3 ROBIN SMITH, 71, died March 13. Mainstay of Southern rock music, Sold more than 13 million albums, won Grammy, Dove, CMA, BMI, ACM awards. Duets 1958-60 “Wrong Company,” ‘How the Other Half Lives,” “Yankee Go Home” with Wynn Stewart (1934-1985). Memphis Music Hall of Fame member. Nashville Repertory Theater stage roles in Othello, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Camelot, Man of La Mancha, Jesus Christ Superstar, Prates of Penzance, Evita, Ain’t Misbehavin,’ Big River, The Piano Lesson, Blood Knot, etc. Longtime executive assistant to producer/label exec Jimmy Bowen. JIM LUSK, 80, died April 25. Played on his albums Imaginary Man (2015), Wide Awake (2018). WANDA WHITE, 87, died Dec. 15. Wrote “In the Ghetto,” “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” “Stop and Smell the Roses,” “A Little Less Conversation,” “I Believe in Music,” “Something’s Burning,” “It’s Hard to Be Humble,” more. Drummer in country-rock band The Tractors with hits ”Baby Likes to Rock It” (1994), “The Santa Claus Boogie” (1994), “The Last Time” (1997), “Shortnin’ Bread” (1998). Opera Memphis adapted some songs for theatrical work “Light in August.” Performed during Nashville Shakespeare Festival. Songwriter with classics “Delta Dawn” (Tanya, 1972 & Helen Reddy, 1973), “Rings” (Cymarron, 1971 & Tompall & Glaser Brothers, 1971), “Hell and High Water” (T. Graham, 1986), “Reuben James” (Kenny & First Edition, 1969), “Baby, Baby I Know You’re a Lady” (David Houston, 1970), “Somebody New” (Billy Ray, 1993), “Tell It All Brother” (Kenny Rogers, 1970). Co-wrote 1964 Elvis hit “It Hurts Me.” Moved to Nashville 1967 to works as session musician for Marty Robbins, Claude King, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Al Kooper, Ringo Starr. CMA Award 1993 “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair,” with George Jones, others. Soul & blues artist who recorded his Bobby Jonz Sings Country LP in 1998. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Southern-rock anthems “The South’s Gonna Do It,” “Long Haired Country Boy” 1975. Background singer for country artists in 1940s & 1950s. BMI Trailblazer Award 2018. Garcia, Benny – 5/7 Daughter of Nashville Banner editor Pinckney Keel, sister of MTSU Dean Beverly Keel (formerly a label exec, music journalist & Music Row publicist). (full name: Waymond D. Jackson). On soundtrack The Beverly Hillbillies singing Buck Owens classic “Together Again.” Collaboration with Beach Boys on 1996 novelty “Long Tall Texan.” Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inductee 2016. On the set of her new Netflix film, Christmas on the Square, Dolly Parton pulled her 9-year-old co-star away from a car that was headed right toward her. ARTHUR CONNOR, 95, died April 13. Walker, Gary – 7/8 Duets with Dolly Parton include “Islands in the Stream” (1983, Platinum), “Real Love” (1985), “You Can’t Make Old Friends” (2013), etc. Show promoter and booking agent for “Legends Fest” country concerts via his Midnight Special Productions. KATHERINE WILLIAMS-DUNNING, 27, died June 13. CBS Records 1970-76 (George Jones, Marty, Tammy, Cash, Ray Price, Lynn Anderson, Joe Stampley, Charlie Rich, Tanya, Gatlin, Coe etc.). Cymbala, Zenon B. Worked at Praxis International, Vector Management, Rising Tide Records, Thirty Tigers, TomKats catering, CMT and own Magnolia Way Management firm. A&R director for Briar Records 1970s, including LPs by Kentucky Colonels. Tennessean sportswriter (1958-72). First woman to win CMA Song of the Year (“80s Ladies”). Guitar player in Opry staff band for 60+ years, the show’s longest tenured musician. Former manager of Johnny Paycheck. Other albums include Souvenirs (2000), Fair & Square (Grammy Award 2005), Standard Songs for Average People (2007 oldie duets with Mac Wiseman [1925-2019]), Singing Mailman Delivers (2011), For Better Or Worse (2016, country duets with Lee Ann Womack, Mattea, Miranda, Kacey, Krauss, etc.). DAVID ALFRED FRYER, 94, Oct. 11. Also KWKH’s Louisiana Hayride, WNOX Knoxville, WWNC Asheville, WPTF Raleigh, WROL Knoxville. Then Bill Pursell at the Piano: The “In” Sound of Country and Western Music for Spar Records. Made initial mark in band Simpson with arrangement of “Black Betty.” First Nashville impact as leader of The X-Rays (1978-85), a founding band of city’s alternative-rock scene. (full name: Bryan Wayne Galentine). 広済会「つつじヶ丘」での活動内容をまとめた不定期の広報誌「つつじ」です。事業所でのイベント報告や収支決算報告、お世話になっている方への御礼などを紹介しております。 Kenny Price back-to-back Top 10 hits 1966-67 with Pennington songs “Walking on New Grass,” “Happy Tracks.” Songs also recorded by Browns, Grandpa, Ferlin, George Morgan, Jean Shepard, Mel Tillis, Wagoner, Eric Church, Leona Williams, James Brown, Johnny Bush, Montgomery Gentry, Paycheck, Wanda, Wilburns, Lorrie Morgan, Etta James, Jim & Jesse, Dave Dudley, Jack Greene, others. Editor of Amusement Business magazine, 1972-2006. WALTER C. MILLER, 94, died Nov. 13. Belmont University professor known Music Row sessions, pop instrumental hits and classical works as pianist/composer. Thrall, Dick – 5/14 NAN KEENAN, 91, died Oct. 30. Songs also cut by Aretha, 4 Tops, Rod Stewart, Delbert, Rita Coolidge, Etta James, Isaac Hayes, plus Country Hall of Famers Conway, Brenda, Merle, Randy, Waylon, Alabama, Cash, Jones, Don Williams, Glen Campbell. CADY GROVES, 30, died May 2. Member Showman’s League of American Hall of Honor, International Independent Showmen’s Association Hall of Fame. Previously in Hour Glass & Allman Joys 1968. Co-founder in 1997 of Nashville independent concert-promotion business Outback Concerts with husband Mike Smardak. Daniels, Charlie – 7/6 Song & band featured in movie Urban Cowboy. STEVE GULLEY, 57, died Aug. 18. BONNIE POINTER, 69, died June 8. Longtime indie country recording artist on NRS, Safari, Silver Dollar, Nashco, SunJay, Stomper Time, etc. Founded River Valley Music Park 1984, began River Valley Bluegrass Jamboree 1985, started Country & Bluegrass Gathering 1988. Harmony singer for Tammy, Carters, Cash (on 1969’s “Daddy Sang Bass,” singing “Mama sang tenor”), plus “Ghost Riders In the Sky,” “Gone Girl,” “I Will Rock and Roll With You,” etc.). Co-founded city’s first recording studio, cutting Buck Owens “Hot Dog” (as “Corky Jones”), Wally Lewis “Kathleen.” Formed Tally Records with cousin Lewis Talley. Toured as R&B and jazz musician 1950s. Lifelong theater educator. PBS American Masters bio-documentary, Charley Pride: I’m Just Me, narrated by Tanya 2019. Suicide following child-sex charges. Directed televised musicals You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Dames at Sea, The Will Rogers Follies, George M! Morford, Faith Bailey – 5/13 Nashville singer, songwriter, musician. Affiliated with Columbia Records, Gene Autry, Challenge Records, 4 Star Records, Golden West Melodies, JAT Publishing, others. Strangers in Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy (1980). Albums Think of Me Sometimes (1977), Powderhorn (1978). Best known as founder of used-record & comics retail chain The Great Escape. 1 hit for Tim McGraw, sold 2 million, BMI Award. Premieres: Sunday, November 22 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9pm/8c Starring: Jill Wagner and Lucas Bryant Description: A writer (Wagner) seeks the identity of the person who helps grant wishes that are placed upon the angel tree, and in the process, reconnects with her childhood friend (Bryant). Launched New Year’s Eve Guitar Drop for Hard Rock Café. Thomas, Ricky Van, Diffie, Earl Thomas, etc.). Country and pop songwriter, recording artist, film actor, Vegas headliner, Broadway musical star, television personality, music publisher. Also wrote songs covered by George Morgan (“Look What Followed Me Home Tonight”), Webb Pierce (“One Week Later,” with Kitty Wells), pre-teen Brenda Lee (“Doodle Bug Rag”), others. Cage, Buddy – 2/4 Began career in Oklahoma gospel groups like Higher Power and in bluegrass band The Special Edition. Many commercials and PSAs, including Discovery Channel, ABC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, CBS, SPIKE-TV, McDonald’s, American Heart Association, NBC, Disney. CHRIS DARROW, 75, died Jan. 15. Formerly in Pigeon Forge hospitality industry, at Opryland Hotel and with Kitty Wells organization. Kaparakis, John B. Championed by Waylon Jennings, who dedicated most of 1973’s Honky Tonk Heroes LP to Shaver songs. Summoned from club in Fayetteville, Tennessee to record for Specialty Records in New Orleans. Nashville banjo luthier & musician. Later longtime entertainer at Opryland & member of popular Tennessee Mafia Jug Band. Breakthrough LP Million Mile Reflections contained huge 1979 pop and country hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which won Grammy & CMA awards. First female Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee. 1 country single/video “Forever Country” which won Video of the Year and Gold Record. Helped launch live-performance series “Music City Roots” and venue Loveless Barn. Soesbee, Bud – 5/20 (full name: Wallace Edward Lunn Jr.). Produced Youngbloods 1969-70 LPs Elephant Mountain, Ride the Wind. JOE DIFFIE, 61, died March 29. Also Nazarene minister. Hostess at Grand Ole Opry for 39 years. Also in Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, Georgia Music Hall of Fame & BMI Icon honoree. Keel, Susan – 11/20 Member of pop vocal group Pointer Sisters. Singer-songwriter, country hit maker and Grand Ole Opry star. GARY McSPADDEN, 77, died April 15. (real name: Bob Willy Jones). TV career began with the birth of the medium in 1940s & 1950s: Horn & Hardart Children’s Hour, Bell Telephone Hour, Startime, Sing Along with Mitch, etc. Known as “the master of smoothness” for making intricate picking appear effortless. Autobiography: Gypsy Songman: A Life in Music (1999). BOB SHANE, 85, died Jan. 26. Band member for Lester Flatt, Jimmy Martin, James Monroe, Rhonda Vincent, Nashville Grass, Larry Stephenson, Curly Seckler. Member of country band Clyde Leoppard & Snearly Ranch Boys, also on Sun. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic claimed the lives of Joe Diffie, John Prine, Bill Mack, Bobby Jonz, Bill Pusell and Charley Pride. The morning after the EF-3 tornado barreled through East Nashville, people were amazed to find that mural still standing. New Movie—To be Announced Head of Artist Relations for Entertainment Radio Networks (1985-93) booking “Countryline USA.” Bureau chief of Nashville trade publication Network 40 (1994-96). Founded own American Institute of Modeling (1980) & American Models, Actors and Extras (AMAX) (1990) businesses. Baxter, Bucky – 5/25 Supervisor at CMA Fest. First recorded with own band The Rockets, 1959’s “Jaguar” rock instrumental. Branched out into record production 1960s via sides for Sonny James, Bill Carlisle, Bobby Russell, Lynn Anderson, more. At CMA Music Fest & all-star Ralph Stanley tribute 2017. Easy-listening piano piece “Our Winter Love” a hit 1963. Originated country standard “Too Far Gone” 1967. BILL PURSELL, 94, died Sept. 3. “Long Tall Sally,” “Slippin’ and Slidin,’” “Rip It Up,” “Ready Teddy” ensued in 1956. MEMARIE, 48, died July 22. Jones, Troy – 9/11 GARY WALKER, 87, died July 8. Sessions in 1970s for Moe Bandy, Mickey Newbury, Freddie Hart (“Easy Lovin’”), J.J. Cale, Dolly (“My Tennessee Mountain Home”), Waylon, soundtrack of movie Nashville, Milsap (“It Was Almost Like a Song,” “Smoky Mountain Rain”), Cash, Tubb. (Full name: Memarie Gayle Cupit Jobe). Father of TV director Paul Miller, who is also a veteran of CMA telecasts, as well as Saturday Night Live, In Living Color, A Capitol Fourth, two Super Bowl halftime shows & more. Great grandmother and mentor of teen country/Americana performer EmiSunshine. Owen also wrote 1959 Ray Price hit “The Same Old Me.” Steel guitarist at Blackboard & Lucky Spot Bakersfield venues & on TV show Trading Post. TEDDY IRWIN, 77, died Nov. 5. Numerous TV specials thereafter. JOE JOHNSON, 93, died Dec. 22. John Prine album voted into Grammy Hall of Fame 2015. Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album 2010. (full name: Glenn Ray McGuirt). Roster eventually included Anderson, Johnny Bush, Billy “Crash” Craddock, Managed singer Sandy Posey with her big pop hits 1966-67 “Born a Woman,” “Single Girl,” “What a Woman in Love Won’t Do,” “I Take It Back.” Continued to work as song plugger 1970s, repping Painted Desert Music, Don Wayne. Corenflos, J.T. Country Music Hall of Fame inductee 2013. QUAY AUSTIN, 62, died March 9. In films Gordy (1994), Benji (1974). Business partner with Buddy Killen in Killen Entertainment Group managing McDowell, Six Shooter. As independent, promoted “Harper Valley P.T.A.” to No. TOM LESTER, 81, died April 20. Chandler, Wayne – 8/7 KENNY INGRAM, 67, died July 26. In rock band Frehley’s Comet 1983. Thousands of people have lost their jobs and thousands more have died from COVID-19. Leadership Music class 2008. Martin, Kirke – 12/16 Own singles on MGM 1957-58. Group popular on Rounder Records & at festivals 1970s. Irwin, Ed – 6/28 Also had charted singles with Steve Goodman’s “You Never Even Call Me By My Name,” Dennis Linde’s “What’ll You Do About Me,” Jim Lauderdale/Frank Dycus’ “She Never Looks Back.” Nominated ACM 1994 New Male Artist of the Year. ABBE DeMONTBREUN-STROUD, 64, died June 19. Formerly Snr. Formed Music Row song publishing company Pi-Gem Music with producer Tom Collins. Fiddler who won Grand Masters Fiddling Championship in Nashville 1983 as teenager, joined Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys. Index: Owen, Helen – 7/13 Formerly a performer. Texas music legend with 40+ albums. LUCILLE STARR, 82, died Sept. 4.

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