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>>>PASSED FROM THIS EARTH 2016<<<

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Rulesman

March 04, 2016, 07:35:53 pm #51 Last Edit: March 04, 2016, 07:43:44 pm by Rulesman
Cervical cancer claims country music's Joey Feek of Joey + Rory at a waaayyy too young age 40.

Joey Feek obit

VHSCoach2

Former First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan has passed away at 94.

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Lions84

She loved her husband and stood by his side till the end.  RIP Nancy Reagan.

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Godfather of UALR Radio had passed.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/110214/ben-frys-death-prompts-flood-of-grief-tributes

The outpouring was swift and heartfelt after University of Arkansas at Little Rock public radio leader Ben Fry died in his sleep March 10 after almost 30 years of shaping campus stations KUAR and KLRE.

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http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/24/garry-shandling-dead/

Gary Shandling. Comedian.  He was 66.

I was reminded of him just the other day as I watched some old Johnny Carson Show clips.

Lions84

Quote from: B.G. on March 24, 2016, 04:13:28 pm
http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/24/garry-shandling-dead/

Gary Shandling. Comedian.  He was 66.

I was reminded of him just the other day as I watched some old Johnny Carson Show clips.

I always felt like Gary never got the props and fame he deserved.


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1-Adam-12

Former New Orleans Saints DE Will Smith, 34, shot dead in an apparent road rage incident last night in New Orleans.  Senseless.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/15174873/will-smith-former-new-orleans-saints-player-shot-killed-traffic-collision

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VHSCoach2

Jonathan Rochner, aka Balls Mahoney, a former wrestler in ECW and WWE, has passed away at age 44.

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BigLion10

Former WWE superstar Chyna has passed away at 45

AirWarren

April 21, 2016, 12:07:00 pm #81 Last Edit: April 21, 2016, 12:41:36 pm by AirWarren
Breaking news.

Being reported that PRINCE or the artist formerly known as PRINCE has been found dead at his Minnesota home.

With the celebrity hoaxes out there, just need some confirmation.

http://fox2now.com/2016/04/21/legendary-singer-prince-dead-at-57-2/



CONFIRMED.

Lions84

Quote from: AirWarren on April 21, 2016, 12:07:00 pm
Breaking news.

Being reported that PRINCE or the artist formerly known as PRINCE has been found dead at his Minnesota home.

With the celebrity hoaxes out there, just need some confirmation.

http://fox2now.com/2016/04/21/legendary-singer-prince-dead-at-57-2/



CONFIRMED.

SAD SAD Purple Rain for Ever  RIP!

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Lions84

Tough year so far for some of our Music Legends.

Lions84

http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20160428-legendary-news-sportswriter-blackie-sherrod-dies-at-96.ece

Legendary Sports Writer Blackie Sherrod dead at 96

Blackie Sherrod, the greatest Texas sportswriter of his generation or any other, now and forevermore, died Thursday afternoon at age 96.

Sherrod died at his home in Dallas of natural causes, said his wife, Joyce. He had been in hospice care for the past week.

bleudog

May 17, 2016, 09:38:34 am #87 Last Edit: May 17, 2016, 09:43:38 am by bleudog
The world has lost a poet.  Desperados Waiting For a Train and The Randall Knife are two of my favorite songs.  Texas Cookin' is one of my favorite albums.


Guy Charles Clark
November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016

Grammy-winner, Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame member, Academy of Country Music Poet's Award honoree, and fearless raconteur Guy Charles Clark (death details here)

He was born in the dusty west Texas town of Monahans on November 6, 1941. The family lived at his grandmother's 13-room shotgun hotel; home to bomber pilots, drifters, oilmen and a wildcatter named Jack Prigg, the subject of Clark's famous song "Desperados Waiting For A Train." When Guy's father returned from WWII and graduated from law school, the Clarks moved to the Gulf coast town of Rockport, Texas. Guy came of age in the pretty little beach town. As captain and center, Guy led the football team. He played guard in basketball, ran the 100-yard dash and threw discus in track and field. He won science fairs, joined the Explorer's club, presided over the junior class as president, acted in school plays, excelled on the debate team, illustrated the yearbook, and fell in love with Mexican folk songs and the Flamenco guitar.

After a couple of false starts at university, Guy joined the Peace Corps in 1963. He trained in Rio Abajo, Puerto Rico, practicing water survival, rock climbing and trekking, followed by a month of book learning at the University of Minnesota. After turning down an assignment in Punjab, India, Guy moved to Houston, where he opened a guitar repair shop with his friend Minor Wilson. He played guitar and sang folk songs at the Houston Folklore Society, Sand Mountain coffee shop and the Jester Lounge, where he began life long friendships with fellow struggling songwriters and musicians Mickey Newbury, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Kay Oslin, Frank Davis, Gary White and Crow Johnson. He married his first wife, folksinger Susan Spaw, and they had a son Travis in 1966.

In 1969, after splitting with Susan, Guy moved to San Francisco and again joined Minor Wilson in a guitar repair shop. Within a year, he moved back to Houston, met and fell in love with a beautiful dark haired painter named Susanna Talley. Susanna moved from Oklahoma City to Houston to be with Guy and after a few months, she sold a painting to fund the couple's move to Los Angeles. Guy landed a job building Dobros at the Dopyera Brothers Original Musical Instruments Company. He played with a bluegrass band on the weekends and pitched his songs to publishing companies in between.

He signed a publishing deal with Sunbury Dunbar and moved to Nashville in the fall of 1971. He and Susanna crashed on songwriter Mickey Newbury's houseboat for a few weeks and then moved into a small rental house at 1307 Chapel Avenue in East Nashville. Guy and Susanna returned to Newbury's houseboat on January 14, 1972 along with Mickey and Susan Newbury and Townes Van Zandt as best man; the five friends sailed up the Cumberland River to the Sumner County Courthouse where Guy Clark and Susanna Talley married.

In that first year in East Nashville Susanna and Townes wrote "Heavenly Houseboat Blues," while Guy turned out "Desperados Waiting for a Train," "L.A. Freeway," and "That Old Time Feeling." By the time Guy released Old No. 1, his debut critically acclaimed album for RCA Records in 1975, he had written several soon-to-be classic songs including "She Ain't Going Nowhere," "Let Him Roll," "Rita Ballou," and "Texas 1947."

He jumped from RCA to Warner Brothers in 1978, scoring a number one song with Ricky Skaggs's take on "Heartbroke" in 1982 and breaking into the Billboard country chart with "Homegrown Tomatoes" in 1983. Clark hit his stride when he signed with Sugar Hill Records in 1989, and then released a string of significant folk and Americana albums with Sugar Hill, Asylum Records and Dualtone Music Group during the next two-and-a-half decades: Old Friends, Boats to Build, Dublin Blues, Keepers, Cold Dog Soup, The Dark, Workbench Songs, Somedays the Song Writes You and his final 2013 Grammy-winning Best Folk Album, My Favorite Picture of You.

For more than forty years, the Clark home was a gathering place for songwriters, folk singers, artists and misfits; many who sat at the feet of the master songwriter in his element, willing Guy's essence into their own pens. Throughout his long and extraordinary career, Guy Clark blazed a trail for original and groundbreaking artists and troubadours including his good friends Rodney Crowell, Jim McGuire, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, Verlon Thompson, Shawn Camp, and Vince Gill.

His beloved Susanna died from complications of lung cancer in 2012. Due to ongoing health problems, Guy stopped touring and recording shortly thereafter. He is survived by his son Travis and daughter-in-law Krista McMurtry Clark; grandchildren Dylan and Ellie Clark; sisters Caroline Clark Dugan and Jan Clark; manager and friend Keith Case; caretaker and sweetheart Joy Brogdon; nieces, nephews and many, many dear friends, colleagues and fans.


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MMA street fighter Kimbo Slice has died at 42

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Singer Christina Grimmie, former contestant on The Voice, was shot and killed (reportedly by an ex-boyfriend) while signing autographs after a concert in Orlando. She was 22.

BigLion10

Sad to say Billy Bob from Varsity Blues has passed at age 45

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HorseFeathers

Blue grass legend Ralph Stanley has passed at the age of 89....

VHSCoach2

Legendary Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball coach Pat Summitt has passed away at 64 after a five-year struggle with Alzheimer's.

AirWarren

Quote from: VHSCoach2 on June 28, 2016, 06:27:11 am
Legendary Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball coach Pat Summitt has passed away at 64 after a five-year struggle with Alzheimer's.

Prayers for that family. Truly an icon in American sports.

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Longfellow

Coach Buddy Ryan passes away at age 82. Originator of the '85 Bears "46 defense"

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