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    • Aug 22, 2002
    Recording technician Denny Purcell is found dead in his office at Nashville's Georgetown Masters. He worked on albums by Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks and Trisha Yearwood, among many others
    Sep 22, 2002
    Jimmy Stoneman, bass player and vocalist for The Stoneman Family, dies in a Smyrna, Tennessee, nursing home of Lou Gehrig's disease. The Stonemans won the Country Music Association's first Vocal Group of the Year trophy in 1967
    Sep 28, 2002
    Songwriter Mickey Newbury dies at home in Vida, Oregon. His credits include Elvis Presley's "An American Trilogy," Jerry Lee Lewis' "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye" and Don Gibson's "Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings," among others
    Oct 2, 2002
    Former Louisiana state fiddling champion Tex Grimsley dies in Shreveport. He wrote the Webb Pierce hit "Walking The Dog"
    Oct 12, 2002
    Pop arranger Ray Conniff dies at the Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California. An influence on the instrumentation of the Nashville Sound, he arranged several Marty Robbins hits, including "A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" and "The Story Of My Life"
    Oct 13, 2002
    "Louisiana Hayride" producer Horace Logan dies in Victoria, Texas. The "Hayride," a radio show similar in format to the Grand Ole Opry, played a major role in the careers of Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves and Johnny Horton, among others
    Oct 17, 2002
    Dobro player Bashful Brother Oswald dies at his Nashville home. A member of the Grand Ole Opry beginning in 1995, he was a fixture in Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, playing on such titles as "The Precious Jewel" and "Wreck On The Highway"
    Oct 18, 2002
    Songwriter Donn Hecht dies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Beach, following a heart attack. He wrote Patsy Cline's first hit, "Walkin' After Midnight"
    Oct 22, 2002
    Pop producer/engineer Tom Dowd dies of a respiratory illness in Miami, Florida. Associated with such acts as Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Aretha Franklin, he co-produced Dusty Springfield's "Son-Of-A-Preacher Man," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Dec 13, 2002
    Zal Yanovsky dies from a heart attack at his home near Kingston, Ontario. Yanovsky co-founded the Lovin' Spoonful, whose 1966 release "Nashville Cats" is listed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's 2003 book "Heartaches By The Number"



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