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- December 21, 2024 CST
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Mar 26, 2022
Jeff Carson dies. Signed to Curb in the 1990s, he earned a #1 single with "Not On Your Love" and picked up the Academy of Country Music's Video of the Year award for "The Car"
Apr 1, 2022
Mandolin player Roland White dies. A bluegrass musician, he worked with Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and The Kentucky Colonels
Apr 1, 2022
C.W. McCall dies. Known for a string of recitations in the 1970s, he earned his largest success with the million-selling crossover hit "Convoy"
Apr 30, 2022
Naomi Judd dies of a self-inflicted gun shot in Tennessee, a day before The Judds join the Country Music Hall of Fame. The mother/daughter duo applied tight, two-part harmony to "Why Not Me," "Have Mercy" and "Love Can Build A Bridge," among others, winning the CMA's Vocal Duo or Vocal Group award seven straight years
May 7, 2022
Mickey Gilley dies in Branson, Missouri. His self-named club spawned the movie "Urban Cowboy," which caused an explosion in country's popularity. A cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart, he earned 17 #1 country singles across a decade, beginning with a 1974 cover of "Roomful Of Roses"
May 23, 2022
Guitarist Thom Bresh dies. The son of Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, Bresh was an acclaimed guitarist, earning a hit on the 1976 single "Home Made Love." Bresh also produced Lane Brody's 1983 hit "Over You"
May 26, 2022
Arranger Bill Walker dies. Known for his work on "The Johnny Cash Show," he fashioned the instrumental parts for Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night," Eddy Arnold's "Make The World Go Away," Roy Clark's "Come Live With Me" and George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Jun 1, 2022
Deborah McCrary dies. She was a member of The McCrary Sisters, a gospel vocal group that backed Maren Morris on "My Church"
Jun 2, 2022
Songwriter Hal Bynum dies. He authored Kenny Rogers' "Lucille," Patty Loveless' "Chains" and Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings' "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
Jun 6, 2022
Jim Seals dies. He was one-half of the pop duo Seals & Crofts, known for "Summer Breeze," "Hummingbird" and "Get Closer." Seals also played guitar on the Buck Owens country hit "Before You Go"
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