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Jul 6, 2003
Drummer Skip Battin dies near Palm Springs, California, after a battle with Alzheimer's. He joined The Byrds in 1969 and played for numerous country-rock bands in the ensuing years
Jul 12, 2003
Jazz legend Benny Carter dies of bronchitis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A significant saxophonist, his 1944 single "Hurry, Hurry!" landed on the Billboard folk hit parade, a predecessor to the country charts
Jul 30, 2003
Record producer Sam Phillips dies at Memphis' St. Francis Hospital from respiratory failure. Founding Sun Records, he played a role in the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and others, landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jul 30, 2003
Marshall "Deacon" Freeman, the last original member of The Oak Ridge Boys, dies in Rocky Face, Georgia
Aug 2, 2003
Singer/songwriter Redd Stewart dies in St. Matthews, Kentucky. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, his credits include "Soldier's Last Letter," "Slowpoke" and "Tennessee Waltz"
Aug 15, 2003
Fiddler Mack Magaha dies of pneumonia at Nashville's Veterans Hospital. A longtime member of Porter Wagoner's Wagonmasters, he played on the Dolly Parton hits "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You" and "Coat Of Many Colors"
Aug 22, 2003
Country Music Hall of Famer Floyd Tillman dies at his home in Bacliff, Texas, of leukemia. Responsible for such songs as "Slipping Around" and "I Love You So Much, It Hurts," he also earned a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Aug 26, 2003
Wilma Burgess dies in Nashville. Among her handful of country hits was "Misty Blue," a much-covered classic which would go on to see two more lives--as a country hit for Eddy Arnold and as a pop hit for Dorothy Moore
Sep 4, 2003
Country music historian Bob Pinson dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital of leukemia. Pinson helped build the Country Music Foundation's music library, which includes approximately 200,000 recordings
Sep 7, 2003
Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon dies at his Los Angeles home a year after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Best known for his rock hit "Werewolves Of London," he wrote Terri Clark's country success, "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me"
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