Here are the personalities country music said goodbye to in 2023. May they rest in peace:
January 4 – Stan Hitchcock (age 86)
(singer/songwriter & CMT co-founder)
January 9 – Dick Flood (age 90)
(singer/songwriter)
March 4 – Michael Rhodes (age 69)
(session bass guitarist)
March 26 – Ray Pillow (age 85)
(singer/Grand Ole Opry member)
April 23 – Keith Gattis (age 52)
(singer/songwriter/producer)
April 28 – Claude Gray (age 91)
(singer/songwriter)
May 1 – Gordon Lightfoot (age 84)
(singer/songwriter)
June 23 – Jesse McReynolds (age 93)
(singer/mandolinist/Grand Ole Opry member)
June 27 – Bobby Osborne (age 91)
(singer/mandolinist/Grand Ole Opry member)
July 17 – Jerry Bradley (age 83)
(producer/music executive)
August 11 – Shoji Tabuchi (age 79)
(Japanese fiddler)
September 1 – Jimmy Buffett (age 76)
(singer/songwriter)
September 10 – Charlie Robison (age 59)
(singer/songwriter)
September 18 – Bob Corbin (age 72)
(songwriter/member of Corbin/Hanner)
September 22 – Mike Henderson (age 70)
(singer/songwriter/guitarist)
October 9 – Buck Trent (age 85)
(multi-instrumentalist)
October 23 – Mervin Shiner (age 102)
(singer/songwriter)
October 28 – Bill Rice (age 84)
(singer/songwriter)
December 22 – Laura Lynch (age 65)
(singer/songwriter/founder of the Dixie Chicks)
special thanks to “Good ‘N Country” host Ken Hippler for compiling this list
