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Sep 12, 2003

Johnny Cash dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital of complications from diabetes, four months after the death of his wife, June Carter. The Man In Black was a member of both the Country Music and Rock & Roll Halls of Fame

Sep 13, 2003

The U.S. Postal Service unveils a stamp featuring Roy Acuff during a ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. The art is based on a photo that appeared in a 1949 edition of Collier's magazine

Sep 13, 2003

Vince Gill and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band members Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden and John McEuen perform a Roy Acuff tribute on the Grand Ole Opry, the same day the legend is honored with a U.S. stamp

Sep 17, 2003

Singer/songwriter/actor Sheb Wooley dies at Nashville's Skyline Medical Center of leukemia. Known for "The Purple People Eater" and a series of parodies under the name Ben Colder, he wrote the "Hee Haw" theme song

Sep 18, 2003

Gerry House returns to the WSIX-FM morning show in Nashville a little more than a month after undergoing emergency brain surgery for a bleeding artery

Sep 19, 2003

Ex-members of Little Texas, appearing under the name XLT, perform at Nashville's Rally In The Valley, the first time they've worked a stage together since their farewell concert in 1997

Sep 19, 2003

The Dave Matthews Band plays Nashville's AmSouth Amphitheatre, joined on stage by local banjo player Bela Fleck and sax player Jeff Coffin, both members of the jazz ensemble The Flecktones

Sep 19, 2003

One week after his death, Johnny Cash wins three trophies at the Americana Music Awards in Nashville

Sep 24, 2003

"Two Pina Coladas" songwriter Shawn Camp joins the cast of the Tony-nominated "It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues" when the production begins an 18-performance run at Nashville's Belcourt Theatre

Sep 25, 2003

Fourteen years after Cash Box country chart manager Kevin Hughes was killed on Music Row in Nashville, a former fellow employee, Richard D'Antonio, is convicted of the murder. Hughes had declined to participate in a chart kickback scandal and threatened to take it public

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