Here are the personalities country music said goodbye to in 2022. May they rest in peace:
January 9 – Jerry Ray Johnston (age 65)
(drummer for Bandana)
January 11 – Jerry Crutchfield (age 87)
(record producer)
January 14 – Dallas Frazier (age 82)
(singer/songwriter)
January 15 – Ralph Emery (age 88)
(radio & television host)
January 30 – Hargus “Pig” Robbins (age 84)
(session pianist)
March 1 – Warner Mack (age 86)
(singer/songwriter)
March 4 – Jimbeau Hinson (age 70)
(songwriter)
March 4 – Jim Owens (age 84)
(producer)
March 10 – Bobbie Nelson (age 91)
(pianist, singer & sister of Willie Nelson)
March 24 – Randy Cornor (age 67)
(singer/songwriter)
March 26 – Jeff Carson (age 58)
(singer/songwriter)
April 1 – C.W. McCall (age 93)
(performer/arranger)
April 1 – Roland White (age 83)
(bluegrass artist)
April 30 – Naomi Judd (age 76)
(singer)
May 7 – Mickey Gilley (age 86)
(singer/songwriter)
May 23 – Thom Bresh (age 74)
(singer/guitarist)
May 26 – Bill Walker (age 95)
(arranger/musical director)
June 14 – Joel Whitburn (age 82)
(author and record chart historian)
June 23 – Bobby Flores (age 61)
(singer, musician, and record executive)
August 8 – Olivia Newton-John (age 73)
(country/pop singer & actress)
August 26 – Luke Bell (age 32)
(singer)
September 9 – Herschel Sizemore (age 87)
(mandolinist)
September 21 – Ray Edenton (age 95)
(session guitarist)
October 4 – Loretta Lynn (age 90)
(singer/songwriter)
October 6 – Jody Miller (age 80)
(singer)
October 6 – Anita Kerr (age 94)
(singer, songwriter, arranger, producer)
October 24 – Don Edwards (age 86)
(cowboy singer/songwriter)
October 28 – Jerry Lee Lewis (age 87)
(rockabilly & country singer)
October 30 – Jerry Whitehurst (age 84)
(pianist/band leader)
November 7 – Jeff Cook (age 73)
(singer/fiddler/guitarist & founding member of Alabama)
December 19 – Charlie Monk (age 84)
(songwriter/broadcaster/music publisher)
December 29 – Ian Tyson (age 89)
(Canadian singer/songwriter)
December 31 – Anita Pointer (age 74)
(member of the Pointer Sisters)
special thanks to Ken Hippler for compiling this list
