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    • Jul 18, 2015
    Atlanta Rhythm Section founder Buddy Buie dies of a heart attack at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan. In addition to such pop hits as The Classics IV's "Stormy" and "Traces," he wrote Wynonna's country hit "Rock Bottom"
    Apr 8, 2016
    Songwriter Jack Hammer dies of heart failure in Oakland. He was best known as an author of the Jerry Lee Lewis landmark "Great Balls Of Fire"
    Jun 21, 2016
    Trumpet player Wayne Jackson dies of congestive heart failure at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. A partner with Andrew Love in The Memphis Horns, he played on pop and R&B hits by Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Peter Gabriel, plus country hits by Kathy Mattea and T.G. Sheppard
    Sep 21, 2016
    Songwriter John D. Loudermilk dies of a heart attack at his home in Christiana, Tennessee. A 1976 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he wrote Stonewall Jackson's "Waterloo," George Hamilton IV's "Abilene" and Eddy Arnold's "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"
    Dec 27, 2016
    Songwriter Billy Joe Burnette dies of a heart attack outside his home in Port Orange, Florida. He was a co-writer of Red Sovine's 1976 hit "Teddy Bear"
    Oct 2, 2017
    Rocker Tom Petty dies of cardiac arrest at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles following an accidental overdose of painkillers for multiple ailments, including a broken hip. The author of Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and Roy Orbison's "You Got It," he sang on Hank Williams Jr.'s remake of "Mind Your Own Business"
    May 21, 2018
    Retired recording engineer Glenn Snoddy dies of congestive heart failure at his home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He founded Nashville's Woodland Sound recording studio, and ran tape for numerous classics, including Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire," Hank Williams' "Kaw-Liga" and Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry"
    May 24, 2018
    Drummer Roger Clark dies of a heart attack at his home in Alabama. He played on Eddy Raven's "I Should've Called," Narvel Felts' "Reconsider Me" and Hank Williams Jr.'s "Family Tradition"
    Oct 24, 2018
    Singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dies at home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, following a heart attack. He earned a pop hit as an artist with "Polk Salad Annie" and had country hits as a songwriter of Hank Williams Jr.'s "A Rainy Night In Georgia" and Jacky Ward's "That's The Way A Cowboy Rocks And Rolls"
    Apr 6, 2019
    Jim Glaser dies of a heart attack. Formerly with Tompall & The Glaser Brothers, he earned a #1 single as a solo artist in 1984 with "You're Gettin' To Me Again." He also sang on singles by Merle Haggard, Hank Snow and Elvis Presley, and joined his brothers to supply backing vocals on Marty Robbins' "El Paso"



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