1998 in Country Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 7 — Owen Bradley, 82, legendary record producer for top artists. (respiratory illness)
  • January 17 — Cliffie Stone, 80, music executive and bassist.
  • January 19 — Carl Perkins, 65, top picker and rockabilly artist. (complications from multiple strokes)
  • January 24 — Justin Tubb, 62, singer-songwriter who fused honky-tonk and rockabilly in the 1950s.
  • February 19 — Grandpa Jones, 84, banjo player, old-time country/gospel singer, comedian and regular on "Hee Haw" (stroke)
  • February 25 — Rockin' Sidney Simien, 59, rhythm and blues, Zydeco, and soul musician best known to country audiences for his 1985 hit, "My Toot Toot." (cancer)
  • April 6 — Tammy Wynette, 55, top country female vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s, best known for hits "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and "Stand By Your Man." (blood clot)
  • April 16 — Rose Maddox, 71, female honky-tonk and rockabilly pioneer who fronted the Maddox Brothers and Rose (kidney failure)
  • May 7 — Eddie Rabbitt, 56, prolific songwriter and pop-country vocalist who once had 35 Top 10 hits in as many releases. (lung cancer)
  • June 10 — Steve Sanders, 45, member of the Oak Ridge Boys from 1987 to 1995; replaced and succeeded by William Lee Golden. (suicide)
  • July 6 — Roy Rogers, 86, actor, singer and "King of the Cowboys." (congestive heart failure)
  • October 2 — Gene Autry, 91, actor and "The Singing Cowboy" (lymphoma).

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