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    • Apr 21, 1924
    Fiddler Henry Gilliland dies in Altus, Oklahoma. Just two years earlier, he took part in the very first country recording session
    Sep 11, 1928
    Randy Hughes is born in Gum, Tennessee. He manages Patsy Cline and plays guitar on many of her hits, including "Crazy," "I Fall To Pieces" and "She's Got You." He also pilots the plane that crashes in 1963, claiming their lives, as well as Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins
    Apr 14, 1931
    African-American blues guitarist Arnold Shultz dies from a heart disorder in Morgantown, Kentucky. He was a musical mentor to a teen-aged Bill Monroe
    Jun 23, 1941
    Trumpet player Walter "Tubby" Lewis dies of pneumonia at age 24. As a member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he appeared on such records as "Time Changes Everything," "New San Antonio Rose" and "Take Me Back To Tulsa"
    Dec 3, 1948
    Guitarist Dick Reinhart dies of a heart attack in Fort Worth. A member of Jimmy Wakely's Rough Riders, he played frequently in western movies and appeared on hits by Johnny Bond and Gene Autry
    Jul 26, 1950
    Blues guitarist Papa Charlie McCoy dies in Chicago. He backed Tommy Johnson on the 1928 recording "Cool Drink Of Water Blues," listed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Apr 15, 1951
    Texas Playboys guitarist Junior Barnard dies at Fresno County General Hospital in California, after a car crash. He played on "Bob Wills Boogie," "Brain Cloudy Blues" and "White Cross On Okinawa," as well as Johnnie Lee Wills' "Milk Cow Blues"
    Jul 28, 1952
    Guitarist Robert "Jabbo" Arrington dies at General Hospital in Nashville. He appeared on Little Jimmy Dickens' "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed" and "Hillbilly Fever," plus several recordings by Carl Smith
    Nov 21, 1952
    Tawnee Hall, a guitarist for Lefty Frizzell, dies at age 25 in Eastman, Georgia
    Jul 2, 1954
    Guitarist Paul Warmack dies of a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He was the leader of The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in 1927, and would continue an Opry association until the 1970s



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