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    • Feb 7, 2001
    Happy trails to the Queen of the West: Dale Evans dies of congestive heart failure in Apple Valley, California. She starred in 35 western movies with husband Roy Rogers and wrote "Happy Trails," the theme to his 1950s TV show, in which she appeared
    Feb 14, 2001
    Western-swing bass player Joe Ferguson dies in Fort Worth, Texas. He appeared with both The Light Crust Doughboys and Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, participating in Wills' hits "Right Or Wrong," "Ida Red" and "New San Antonio Rose"
    Feb 18, 2001
    NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt dies from a crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. He appeared in the video to Brooks & Dunn's "Honky Tonk Truth" and is referenced as "#3" in the 2009 Tim McGraw hit "Southern Voice"
    Feb 21, 2001
    Rockabilly artist Malcolm Yelvington dies in Memphis, Tennessee. He recorded for Sun Records in the 1950s and appeared among the chorus of background singers on Johnny Cash's 1957 hit "Home Of The Blues"
    Mar 2, 2001
    Harmonica player Lonnie Glosson dies in Searcy, Arkansas. During his career, he worked with Molly O'Day and Wayne Raney, with whom he co-wrote "Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me"
    Mar 2, 2001
    Songwriter Guy Wood dies in New York City. He authored a pair of Red Foley hits from the early-1950s: "Cincinnati Dancing Pig" and "Hobo Boogie"
    Mar 13, 2001
    Fiddler Benny Martin dies in a Nashville hospital. The inventor of the eight-string fiddle, he played with Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, among others
    Apr 3, 2001
    Rockabilly guitarist Paul Peek dies in Lithonia, Georgia, from cirrhosis of the liver. Peek played with Gene Vincent's Blue Caps
    Apr 8, 2001
    Singer/songwriter Van Stephenson dies at home in Nashville from skin cancer. Stephenson was one-third of the trio BlackHawk and wrote Lee Greenwood's "You've Got A Good Love Comin'" and Restless Heart's "Bluest Eyes In Texas"
    Apr 19, 2001
    John Stoneman dies in Jonesville, Virginia, of heart failure. The son of Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, he played autoharp in an early incarnation of The Stoneman Family, but gave it up for farming



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