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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 13, 2002
    BlackHawk's surviving members play an acoustic concert at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music to raise money for cancer research. The band's Van Stephenson died from cancer the previous year
    Jun 23, 2002
    Lesley Raines, the wife of Perfect Stranger guitarist Richard Raines, dies in Carthage, Texas, of complications from a cancerous brain tumor
    Jul 9, 2002
    Doctors tell guitarist Leo Jackson that his prostate cancer is in remission, following weeks of treatment. Jackson played on a number of Jim Reeves hits and also contributed to three of George Strait's early recordings
    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 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
    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
    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
    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
    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



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