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    • Apr 28, 2009
    Vern Gosdin dies in a Nashville hospital weeks after suffering a stroke. Known as "The Voice," he was a staunch traditional country singer and won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year honor for co-writing "Chiseled In Stone"
    May 3, 2009
    Violinist Lillian Vann Hunt dies at age 95. A founding member of the Nashville Symphony, she played in the string section on Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden," Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me" and Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
    May 9, 2009
    Singer/songwriter/guitarist Stephen Bruton dies of throat cancer in Los Angeles. A member of Kris Kristofferson's band for two decades, he co-produced the "Crazy Heart" soundtrack just before his passing
    May 15, 2009
    Basketball player and jazz musician Wayman Tisdale dies of cancer at the St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event spurs Toby Keith to write "Cryin' For Me (Wayman's Song)"
    Jun 3, 2009
    TV producer Danny Petraitis dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a background vocalist on Brooks & Dunn's "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" and played harmonica on Johnny Cash's "Red Hot + Country" track "Forever Young"
    Jun 5, 2009
    Violinist Cate Myer dies. A member of the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville String Machine, she played on such hits as Keith Urban's "Everybody," Lee Ann Womack's "A Little Past Little Rock" and Carrie Underwood's "Just A Dream"
    Jun 10, 2009
    Producer Barry Beckett dies of complications from a stroke at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. His credits include hits by Eddy Raven, Lorrie Morgan, Kenny Chesney and Hank Williams Jr.
    Jun 23, 2009
    Ed McMahon dies at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The former TV sidekick of Johnny Carson, he hosted "Star Search," which featured such pre-stardom contestants as Sawyer Brown, Little Texas, Ty Herndon and LeAnn Rimes
    Jun 24, 2009
    Songwriter Tim Krekel dies at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, of abdominal cancer. A former Jimmy Buffett band member, he wrote Crystal Gayle's "Turning Away" and Patty Loveless' "You Can Feel Bad"
    Jun 25, 2009
    Pop star Michael Jackson dies of cardiac arrest at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His song "We Are The World" brought Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers in on a mass-artist project to combat famine in Africa



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