Country Singer Porter Wagoner Dead
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Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.  Wagoner, who had survived an abdominal aneurysm in 2006, was hospitalized a...
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Veteran Dobro musician  Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh,"  has died at 79, his family said on Monday.
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Porter Wagoner has lung cancer and remains hospitalized in serious condition, a publicist for the country singer said Sunday.
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Dolly Parton said Monday she feels like a part of her died along with her old duet partner, Porter Wagoner. But she said she was grateful that she was able to spend a few final hours with the man who launched her career before he succumbed to cancer Sunday.
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The brother-in-law of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre died Wednesday evening after crashing an all-terrain vehicle on the player&#39;s property.
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Boots Randolph, whose spirited saxophone playing on songs like "Yakety Sax" made him one of Nashville's top musicians, died Tuesday. He was 80.
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George Osmond, father of the famous singing siblings The Osmonds, dies in Utah at the age of 90.
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Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.
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The American singer Frankie Laine, who sang the theme to the TV show Rawhide, dies, aged 93.
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Ray Mears, the Tennessee basketball coach who presided over the "Ernie and Bernie show" during his 15 seasons guiding the Volunteers, died yesterday. He was 80.
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A tour bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs from a performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival struck and killed a man Friday night, authorities said.
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Guitarist Hank Garland, who worked with Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, dies at the age of 74.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jimmy Griffin, an  Academy Award-winning songwriter and former guitarist for the  1970s pop group Bread, died Tuesday in Nashville of  complications from cancer. He was 61.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 2--A truck driver who died Wednesday when his rig was hit by a train has been identified as a Brush resident.   Kurt Schilling, 52, grew up in Brush and was driving for Doty Farms when he died in the crash south of Gilcrest.
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Mr. Wagoner was a Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with Dolly Parton, rising new performer,  in the 1960s.
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Country music singer Skeeter Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday, according to a family friend.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The Grand Ole Opry lost one of its  most unique members with the Sept. 19 passing of Skeeter Davis.