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    • May 15, 1982
    Bass player Birch Monroe dies following a heart attack in Owensboro, Kentucky, one day before his 81st birthday. The older brother of Bill Monroe, he appeared on The Blue Grass Boys' 1948 hit "Wicked Path Of Sin"
    Jul 2, 1982
    DeFord Bailey dies at his daughter's Nashville home. The first African-American to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, he is eventually inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005
    Jul 15, 1982
    Arranger Bill Justis dies in Nashville. Best known for his 1957 instrumental "Raunchy," Justis arranged such hits as Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me Lord" and Kenny Rogers' "Love The World Away"
    Aug 4, 1982
    Fiddler and songwriter Shelby "Tex" Atchison dies in Collinsville, Illinois. He wrote Johnny Bond's "Sick, Sober And Sorry," Johnny Horton's "Sleepy-Eyed John" and Hank Locklin's "We're Gonna Go Fishin'"
    Aug 13, 1982
    R&B singer/songwriter Joe Tex dies of a heart attack in Navasota, Texas. Known for such hits as "I Gotcha" and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)," he also wrote Barbara Mandrell's 1972 country hit "Show Me"
    Aug 20, 1982
    Bass player and guitarist Louis Innis dies in Nashville. Building on his membership in Red Foley's band, he played on numerous country hits by Hank Williams, Kitty Wells and Eddy Arnold
    Sep 7, 1982
    Songwriter Charlie Silver is found dead in a Shelbyville, Tennessee, motel room, apparently from self-inflicted gunshots. With him is a plaque from Barbara Mandrell's "Standing Room Only," the only hit he wrote
    Sep 23, 1982
    Jimmy Wakely dies in Mission Hills, California, of emphysema. The former western movie star had a run of country hits from the early-1940s through 1951, including the classics "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" and "Slipping Around"
    Oct 16, 1982
    Singer/songwriter Doyle Wilburn dies in Nashville. Along with younger sibling Teddy, The Wilburn Brothers were longtime members of the Grand Ole Opry and recorded for Decca Records, where they mounted nearly 15 hits from 1954-1966
    Oct 17, 1982
    Alcyone Bate Beasley dies from a stroke at Nashville Memorial Hospital. The daughter of Dr. Humphrey Bate, she sang with his band The Possum Hunters in the early days of the Grand Ole Opry. She also provided harmony vocals on Ernest Tubb's version of "Blue Christmas"



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