{"id":931,"date":"2012-01-14T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.wordpress.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2012-01-14T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:51:15","slug":"list-of-industry-names-who-have-passed-away-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/list-of-industry-names-who-have-passed-away-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Greats Who Have Passed Away In 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>UPDATED LIST OF INDUSTRY NAMES WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY IN 2011<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The following is an update of those names in our music industry here in Tennessee that we have lost in 2011.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billie Jo Spears dies at 74<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">, <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison, dies at age 60<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">,<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Charlie Douglas country music disc jockey dies at 78, Tom Roady Nashville percussionist dies at 62, Paul Yandell Nashville guitarist, Chet Atkins\u2019 right-hand man, dies at 76, Don Wayne 78, Billy Grammer, Opry member dies at 85, Bill Johnson, Nashville artist, who redesigned \u2018Rolling Stone\u2019 logo, dies at 68, Steve Popovich, maverick record executive who worked with roster of legends, dies at 68, Jean Dinning songwriter \u2018Teen Angel\u2019 , Patsi Bale Cox, Johnnie Wright, Kitty Wells Husband, Charlie Louvin, Wilma Lee Cooper, Mel McDaniel, &#8220;Big John&#8221; Bechtel, one of Nashville\u2019s Legendary Steel Guitarists passed away Sept 28th. He was 74 years old. Dobie Gray, Ferlin Husky, Liz Anderson, Pee Wee Rogers Steel Guitarist for Little Jimmy Dickens, Doug Collins One of country music\u2019s legendary DJ\u2019s and a dear, dear friend, James O\u2019Gwynn Great recording artist, Lamar Fikes Elvis\u2019s Memphis Mafia, Buddy Charleton Legendary steel guitarist for Ernest Tubb, Doc Williams One of the great pioneers of country music, Carlton Haney Legendary Promoter, Ralph Mooney Buck Owens and Waylon Jennings steel guitarist, Coyote McCloud Nashville\u2019s legendary DJ, Sonny Martin Country &amp; Bluegrass Artist, Kenny Baker A legend fiddle player in bluegrass music, Jack Barlow One of the great stylist voices in country music, Marshall Grant Base player for Johnny Cash\u2019s Original Band, Jack Pruitt Marty Robbins great guitar player, Taz Digregoria Keyboard player, vocalist, and longtime member of Charlie Daniels Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This list of Stars who have passed on during 2011 was made available by Marty Martel, <span style=\"color:#000000;\">Keeping Country\u2019s Memory Alive, <span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If I have missed someone, please let me know. Thank you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED LIST OF INDUSTRY NAMES WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY IN 2011 The following is an update of those names in our music industry here in Tennessee that we have lost in 2011. MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE. Billie Jo Spears dies at 74, Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison, dies at age 60, Charlie Douglas country music disc jockey dies at 78, Tom Roady Nashville percussionist dies at 62, Paul Yandell Nashville guitarist, Chet Atkins\u2019 right-hand man, dies at 76, Don Wayne 78, Billy Grammer, Opry member dies at<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/list-of-industry-names-who-have-passed-away-in-2011\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}