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    • Aug 2, 2002
    Producer/songwriter Joe Allison dies in Nashville, following a lengthy illness. A former head of Liberty's country division, he wrote "He'll Have To Go" and "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young," entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1978
    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"
    Aug 18, 2002
    Songwriter Jonnie Barnett dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital following a stroke. He wrote the Clay Walker hit "The Chain Of Love" and had bit parts in the motion pictures "Nashville" and "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie"
    Aug 26, 2002
    Songwriters Vince Melamed and Josh Leo perform The Beatles' "In My Life" at a funeral for recording technician Denny Purcell. The event is attended by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Gail Davies, Nanci Griffith and John Prine, among others
    Aug 28, 2002
    Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon is diagnosed with cancer and told he has only three months to live. Known for writing "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," he survives long enough to finish one more album and see it released the following August
    Sep 11, 2002
    Thomas Nelson publishes "If You've Got A Dream, I've Got A Plan," a how-to book for songwriters written by Kelley Lovelace, author of the Joe Nichols hit "The Impossible." The foreword is penned by Brad Paisley
    Sep 14, 2002
    Darryl Worley hosts his inaugural Tennessee River Run charity concert at Pickwick Landing State Park. The bill includes Bill Anderson, Elizabeth Cook, Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time and songwriters Walt Aldridge, Rob Crosby, Steve Leslie and Jerry Salley
    Sep 15, 2002
    A 37-cent Irving Berlin stamp is dedicated by the U.S. Postal Service during a ceremony in New York's Times Square. Berlin wrote Willie Nelson's 1978 hit "Blue Skies" and the score to "Annie Get Your Gun," a recent Reba McEntire vehicle
    Sep 20, 2002
    Lynchburg, Virginia, names a street after hometown boy Phil Vassar when he performs in the city. Lynchburg also proclaims Phil Vassar Day and presents him with a key to the city
    Sep 25, 2002
    Diamond Rio's Brian Prout and "Breathe" songwriter Stephanie Bentley-Prout have a daughter, Lily Arlina Kay Prout, in Nashville



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