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    • Jul 15, 1973
    Guitarist Clarence White dies after being hit by a drunk driver in a nightclub parking lot. He spent three years as a member of the country-rock pioneers The Byrds
    Sep 4, 1973
    Folk preservationist and songwriter Bascom Lunsford dies in South Turkey Creek, North Carolina. He co-wrote the country classic "Mountain Dew," recorded by Willie Nelson, The Stanley Brothers and Lulu Belle & Scotty
    Sep 5, 1973
    Milt Mabie dies in Roswell, New Mexico. A member of Louise Massey & The Westerners, he was also married to the group's lead singer
    Sep 17, 1973
    Pop arranger Hugo Winterhalter dies in Greenwich, Connecticut. On top of work with such acts as Kate Smith and Count Basie, he joined Eddy Arnold for a 1955 New York session that yielded four hits, including a remake of "The Cattle Call"
    Sep 19, 1973
    Gram Parsons dies at Joshua Tree, California, of an accidental chemical overdose. A former member of The Byrds, one of country-rock's seminal acts, Parsons influenced Emmylou Harris to take up country music
    Oct 3, 1973
    Bass vocalist Jim "Big Chief" Wetherington dies of a heart attack in his room at Nashville's Ramada Inn. Wetherington appeared on The Statesmen Quartet's "This Ole House," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book, "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 4, 1973
    Mandolin player Esther "Violet" Koehler dies in Berea, Kentucky. She was a longtime member of The Coon Creek Girls, who became the first all-female stringband when the group coalesced in Cincinnati in 1937
    Oct 15, 1973
    Guitarist Perry Botkin dies at his home in Van Nuys, California. He recorded with pop and jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire and Jack Teagarden, but also took part in country hits by Bing Crosby, Jimmie Davis and The Sons Of The Pioneers
    Nov 10, 1973
    David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, are murdered in their Ridgetop, Tennessee, home when they surprise burglars after his Grand Ole Opry performance. Their bodies are discovered by Grandpa Jones
    Nov 26, 1973
    Bass player John Rostill dies in Radlett, England, electrocuted by a guitar in his home studio. An ex-member of The Shadows, he wrote the Olivia Newton-John hits "Please Mr. Please," "Let Me Be There" and "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"



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