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Jun 1, 1996
Keyboard player Don Grolnick dies in New York City. A successful session musician during the 1970s and '80s, he played on pop hits by James Taylor, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan, plus Linda Ronstadt's country success "Blue Bayou"
Jun 7, 1996
Banjo player Courtney Johnson dies of lung cancer in Glasgow, Kentucky. He was an original member of the groundbreaking New Grass Revival
Jul 14, 1996
Guitarist Randy Bethune dies of cancer at Summit Medical Center in Nashville. He worked for five years as a member of Bill Anderson's Po' Folks road band
Jul 17, 1996
Bass player Chas Chandler dies in England. A former member of the rock band The Animals, he took part in the 1964 pop hit "The House Of The Rising Sun." Dolly Parton earns a country hit with a cover of the song in 1981
Jul 31, 1996
Jay Lee Webb dies of pancreatic cancer at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The brother of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle, he traveled as a band member with Buck Owens, Ferlin Husky and Slim Whitman
Aug 11, 1996
Following a struggle with cancer, drummer Mel Taylor dies of heart failure in Tarzana, California. A longtime member of the pop instrumental group The Ventures, he also played on two Buck Owens hits: "Together Again" and "My Heart Skips A Beat"
Sep 21, 1996
One-hit wonder Woody Carter dies. His lone commercial success as a recording artist came with the 1949 single "Sittin' On The Doorstep." He also worked as a supporting musician on Floyd Tillman's "Slipping Around"
Oct 4, 1996
Fiddler Jerry Rivers dies at Nashville's Summit Medical Center of cancer. A member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys from 1949-1951, he played on such classics as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "Cold, Cold Heart"
Dec 23, 1996
Songwriter, sax player and club owner Ronnie Scott dies in London from an apparently accidental overdose of pain pills for tooth implants. He wrote Bonnie Tyler's "It's A Heartache" and Shelly West's "Flight 309 To Tennessee"
Mar 5, 1997
Western-swing guitarist Zeke Campbell dies at his home in Hurst, Texas. Joining the Light Crust Doughboys in 1935, he was one of the first musicians in country or western music to use an electric guitar
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