2001 in Country Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 1 — John Jarrard, 47, songwriter (respiratory failure)
  • February 7 — Dale Evans, 88, writer, actress, singer-songwriter, and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers
  • April 16 — Van Stephenson, 47, guitarist, vocalist and co-founding member of the 1990s group Blackhawk (skin cancer)
  • June 4 — John Hartford, 63, singer-songwriter and bluegrass musician (non-Hodgkin Lymphoma)
  • June 30 — Chet Atkins, 77, guitarist and record producer (colon cancer)
  • July 3 — Johnny Russell, 61, singer-songwriter best known for writing the Buck Owens classic "Act Naturally" (diabetes)
  • September 11 — Carolyn Mayer Beug, 48, filmmaker and music video director who directed several music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam (killed when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into World Trade Center)

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