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“All My Ex’s” Songwriter Whitey Shafer Has Died

A legend of country music songwriting, and one that put the painful experience of divorce into words and song like none other has gone to the great honky tonk in the sky. Sanger D. Shafer, known popularly as Whitey Shafer, passed away on Saturday, January 12th according to reports.

Connie Smith, Dallas Frazier, George Strait, Jack Greene, John Michael Montgomery, Johnny Russell, Keith Whitley, Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Mo Bandy, Shawn Colvin, Whitey Shafer

January 1, 2014

In Memoriam: 2013’s Fallen Country Music Greats

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It is sometimes easy to get swept up in moments and convince yourself that it has never been as bad as it is now. But one thing is hard to argue: the amount of loss that occurred in country music in 2013 was to a degree the genre has rarely, or never experienced before. 2013 seemed to be a year of suffering through one unfortunate news story after another.

Braxton Schuffert, Cal Smith, Chet Flippo, George Jones, Hank Williams, Jack Clement, Jack Greene, Jody Payne, Johnny Bush, Johnny Paycheck, Mindy McCready, Patti Page, Pay Price, Roger Miller, Rolling Stone, Slim Whitman, Tammy Wynette, The Andrews Sisters, The Jordanaires, Tompall Glaser, Tony Douglas, Wayne Mills, Willie Nelson