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    • Jan 28, 2002
    Horn player Steven Caldwell, formerly of The Swingin' Medallions, dies of cancer. The band had a 1966 pop hit with "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)," covered for the country charts in 1983 by Joe Stampley
    Jun 23, 2002
    Lesley Raines, the wife of Perfect Stranger guitarist Richard Raines, dies in Carthage, Texas, of complications from a cancerous brain tumor
    Aug 17, 2002
    Singer/songwriter Don Winters dies of cancer in Nashville. He had a 1961 hit with "Too Many Times" and wrote the Louvin Brothers' "You're Running Wild"
    Dec 31, 2002
    Guitarist Jim McReynolds, of the bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse, dies at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tennessee, of cancer. Jim & Jesse joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1964, and earned a Congressional Medal of the Arts in the 1990s
    Jan 17, 2003
    Frank "Hylo" Brown dies of cancer in Urbana, Ohio. One of bluegrass music's unsung pioneers, he performed regularly with Flatt & Scruggs
    Jan 17, 2003
    Horn player Charlie Webber, formerly of The Swingin' Medallions, dies of cancer in Greenwood, South Carolina. The band had a 1966 pop hit with "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)," covered for the country charts in 1983 by Joe Stampley
    Apr 3, 2003
    R&B songwriter Homer Banks dies of cancer in Memphis. Two of his songs became country hits: "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" for Barbara Mandrell, and "Touch A Hand, Make A Friend" for The Oak Ridge Boys
    Apr 27, 2003
    Media executive Ed Gaylord dies of pancreatic cancer at his home in Oklahoma City. He established Gaylord Entertainment, which owned TNN, CMT and the Grand Ole Opry for much of the 1990s
    May 2, 2003
    John Mattea dies of cancer in West Virginia. He was the father of Kathy Mattea
    Sep 4, 2003
    Country music historian Bob Pinson dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital of leukemia. Pinson helped build the Country Music Foundation's music library, which includes approximately 200,000 recordings



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