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    • Sep 28, 2002
    Songwriter Mickey Newbury dies at home in Vida, Oregon. His credits include Elvis Presley's "An American Trilogy," Jerry Lee Lewis' "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye" and Don Gibson's "Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings," among others
    Oct 2, 2002
    Former Louisiana state fiddling champion Tex Grimsley dies in Shreveport. He wrote the Webb Pierce hit "Walking The Dog"
    Oct 18, 2002
    Songwriter Donn Hecht dies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Beach, following a heart attack. He wrote Patsy Cline's first hit, "Walkin' After Midnight"
    Nov 3, 2002
    Bob Dylan ("To Make You Feel My Love"), Shel Silverstein ("A Boy Named Sue") and Dean Dillon ("Ocean Front Property") enter the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during ceremonies at Loews Vanderbilt Plaza
    Dec 5, 2002
    "You're Like Comin' Home" songwriter Brandon Kinney adds a daughter to the family when wife Jeanie gives birth to Nix Kinney
    Dec 19, 2002
    Nashville songwriter Gretchen Peters gets a Golden Globe nomination for her song "Here I Am," from "Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron." Her country hits include "The Secret Of Life," "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" and "Independence Day"
    Dec 31, 2002
    Singer/songwriter J.D. Souther, composer of Glen Campbell's "Faithless Love," visits Nashville on an extended songwriting trip and ends up staying
    Dec 31, 2002
    Big Kenny, already $140,000 in debt, loses most of his last $200 playing blackjack in Las Vegas. He gives the dealer a $20 tip, leaving himself with just one buck. The event inspires him to write a future Tim McGraw hit, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
    Jan 12, 2003
    Maurice Gibb, of The Bee Gees, dies in a Miami Beach hospital, just days after emergency abdominal surgery. He co-wrote three different Kenny Rogers hits, including the blockbuster "Islands In The Stream"
    Jan 12, 2003
    Singer/songwriter Mark Luna portrays Don Everly in an episode of the NBC-TV series "American Dreams." Luna was a background vocalist on Lari White's "That's My Baby" and Chad Brock's "Yes!"



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