Death
Huskey died of lung cancer at Columbia Centennial Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee on September 6, 1997. He was 40 years at the time of his death. Country musician Marty Stuart told The Tennessean "Roy Huskey was a pure original state of the art, bona fide, textbook example of a bass-playing genius, truly irreplaceable."
Acoustic musician and friend John Hartford said, "In as much as the bass is the heartbeat of country music, and in as much as he was country music's most important bass player, I would say country music has just had a major heart attack."
Sam Bush recorded a tribute, "Song for Roy", with help from Jon Randall, Emmylou Harris, and Byron House. The tribute appears on Bush's 1998 album, Howlin' at the Moon. Steve Earle recorded the song "Pilgrim" as a tribute to Huskey on his 1998 album "The Mountain". The 1999 album "Trio II" by Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton was dedicated to Roy.
Roy Milton Huskey was son to former bassist, Roy Madison Huskey, Jr., "Junior Huskey". Roy Milton Huskey left behind a wife, Lisa Huskey, and two sons, Taylor Huskey, and J.T. Huskey (who performs with various bands and artists on the upright bass as needed).
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