Bluegrass Dobro artist "Uncle Josh" dead at 79
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - 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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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, equally  well known for his scrapes with the law and offbeat antics as  for his work with rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, died suddenly in  New York Saturday of unknown causes, his record label said.
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Hard-living swamp pop performer Joe Barry, whose 1960 version of "I'm a Fool to Care" put him in the national spotlight, died Aug. 31. He was 65.
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Playbill - Jerome Chodorov, the playwright whose My Sister Eileen inspired the musical Wonderful Town, died of natural causes Sept. 12 at the age of 93.
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Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died Sunday (Sept. 19) at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73.
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The rapper ODB, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan whose erratic behaviour and incessant legal troubles made him a figure as wild as his lyrics, collapsed and died inside a recording studio at age 35.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to their first three postseason appearances, died early Friday. He was 58.
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Actor John D. Barrymore, Father of Drew Barrymore, Dies at 72; Cause of Death Not Disclosed. Actor John D. Barrymore is shown in a scene from &quot;Rawhide&quot; in this 1964 file photo in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon takes a musical moment to note the death of Louisiana bluesman Raful Neal. Too easy and a bluesman Rachel Neil died this week at the age of sixty-eight the singer and harmonica
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. He was 93.
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SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. -- The 17-year-old granddaughter of Jack Whittaker, winner of the nation's biggest undivided lottery jackpot, was found dead Monday near her boyfriend's home, more than two weeks after she disappeared. The cause of death was under investigation.
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US musician Danny Flores, who wrote and sang the 1950s hit song Tequila!, has died at the age of 77.
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Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such movies as &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie&quot; during a wide-ranging 50-year career, has died near Los Angeles according to news reports.
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_ Rapper ODB was remembered by family and friends today as a &quot;sweet, quiet kid&quot; who died too young. The 35-year-old collapsed and died Saturday in a Manhattan recording studio.