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Charlie Louvin Battles Pancreatic Cancer

July 17th 2010 in Americana, Legends

Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Louvin, best known with his brother Ira as a member of the close harmony duo The Louvin Brothers, is scheduled for surgery for pancreatic cancer on July 22 in Nashville. His manager, Brett Steele, says doctors expect a full recovery. Louvin just celebrated his 83rd birthday and had a tour planned to start July 21 but had to cancel. Louvine will release a new album, “Hickory Wind,” a tribute to Gram Parsons, on July 20.

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Hank Cochran, one of country music’s most storied and prolific songwriters who wrote songs for Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, George Strait an many others passed away yesterday morning. His Wikipedia bio reads like a Mother lode for source for country gold:

Born during the Great Depression in Isola, Mississippi, he contracted pneumonia, whooping cough, measles and mumps all about the same time at age 2. The doctor didn’t think that he would survive. His parents divorced when [...]

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