2000 in Country Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • March 7 — Pee Wee King, 86, singer-songwriter (heart attack)
  • March 14 — Tommy Collins, 69, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound
  • April 21 — Neal Matthews, Jr., 70, member of The Jordanaires (heart attack)
  • November 5 — Jimmie Davis, 101, the "Singing Governor", two-term governor of Louisiana from 1944–1948 and again from 1960-1964 (natural causes)

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