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    • Mar 31, 2011
    Mel McDaniel dies of lung cancer at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A Grand Ole Opry member, he earned 1980s hits with "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Right In The Palm Of Your Hand" and "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"
    Apr 9, 2011
    Engineer and record producer Roger Nichols dies of cancer at his home in Burbank, California. He worked with the likes of Steely Dan, Rosanne Cash, John Denver, Rodney Crowell and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
    May 22, 2011
    Jefferson, Georgia, resident Kory Potts dies of leukemia at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The 23-year-old's fight inspires one of the verses in Brantley Gilbert's 2014 single "One Hell Of An Amen"
    Jun 30, 2011
    Songwriter Ruth Roberts dies of lung cancer at her home in Rye Brook, New York. She co-wrote Jimmy Dean's 1965 country hit "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And The Last Thing Ev'ry Night)"
    Jul 1, 2011
    Songwriter Charlie Craig dies of lung cancer in Nashville. He wrote Alan Jackson's "Wanted" and Janie Fricke's "She's Single Again," among other hits
    Aug 28, 2011
    Songwriter George Green dies of lung cancer in Albuquerque. A frequent John Mellencamp collaborator, he authored The Oak Ridge Boys' "Come On In (You Did The Best You Could Do)"
    Sep 12, 2011
    Songwriter Don Wayne dies from cancer at his Nashville home. Among his hits: Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan," Jean Shepard's "If Teardrops Were Silver" and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin"
    Oct 1, 2011
    Trisha Yearwood's mother, Gwen Yearwood, dies of cancer in Tifton, Georgia
    Dec 6, 2011
    Music publisher Barbara Orbison, the widow of Roy Orbison, dies of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles
    Dec 8, 2011
    Keyboard player Dick Sims dies of cancer. He worked with Eric Clapton during the 1970s, playing on Clapton's lone country hit, "Lay Down Sally"



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