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Jul 26, 1990
Grateful Dead keyboard player Brent Mydland dies of an accidental drug overdose at his home in Lafayette, California. The band is destined to appear in the lyrics of Lonestar's 1996 country hit "No News"
Sep 29, 1990
Murry Kellum, who wrote Alabama's "If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)," dies in a plane crash
Nov 13, 1990
Richie Shelton dies in a car accident in Ada, Oklahoma, when his girlfriend drives into the back end of a school bus. His brother, Blake Shelton, honors him by co-writing the 2011 release "Over You" with Miranda Lambert
Mar 16, 1991
A plane crash outside of San Diego kills eight members of Reba McEntire's band and crew, including singer/songwriter Chris Austin, whose "Same Ol' Love" becomes a hit for Ricky Skaggs
Jan 30, 1993
Bus driver Johnny Wiggins dies in a head-on car crash in North Carolina. Known as "The Singing Bus Driver," he drove Ernest Tubb's bus for 30 years, but dies before his children, John & Audrey Wiggins, net their first recording deal
Jan 15, 1995
Vic Willis dies in a van accident in Hohenwald, Tennessee. A Grand Ole Opry fixture for nearly 50 years as a solo artist, and as a member of The Willis Brothers, he spent his final 13 years as secretary-treasurer of the musicians' union in Nashville
Feb 15, 1995
Ed Keathley, the bass player for Ray Stevens, dies in Nashville of smoke inhalation after falling asleep with a lit cigarette
Dec 8, 1995
Billboard publisher Lee Zhito dies in Santa Monica when he is struck by a car. Zhito spent more than 50 years with the magazine, generally regarded as the leading trade publication for the music industry
Jan 29, 1996
Fiddler Tommy Ewing Wair dies when an F-14 fighter plane crashes into a Nashville home where he was visiting. He worked as a sideman for his brother-in-law, Stonewall Jackson, from 1960-1965
Feb 17, 1996
Gus Hardin dies in a head-on collision near Lake Hudson, Oklahoma. The rowdy vocalist earned Top 10 releases in the mid-1980s with "After The Last Goodbye" and a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, "All Tangled Up In Love"
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