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Press Releases & News

News Stories — 2002
December 31, 2002 Brian Sinclair, at 62, Hillbilly at Harvard radio co-host
November 5, 2002 Weldon "Buddy" Walker: Pioneering country, Western singer was Jamboree regular
October 18, 2002 Acuff's sidekick leaves own legacy
October 17, 2002 Del McCoury Band Earns Sixth Win For Entertainer Of The Year At The 2002 IBMA Awards; Down From The Mountain Wins Album Of The Year
October 13, 2002 Horace Logan, started the 'Louisiana Hayride,' which gave breaks to Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, dies
October 9, 2002 Singing cowboy Randy Atcher dies
September 24, 2002 Bass player Jimmy Stoneman dies
September 13, 2002 Homer Callahan dies at 90
August 18, 2002 'The Yodeling King,' Don Winters, dies
August 17, 2002 Bluegrass Hall of Honor to Induct The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, David Freeman
August 15, 2002 Obituary: Robert H. Bell Jr., Original Member of The Trailhands, of WLW Hayride
August 2, 2002 Composer of 'He'll Have to Go' dies

Hillbilly-News Press Releases — 2002
September 8, 2002 Hillbilly-Music.com In the Spotlight in Country Music Magazine's 30th Anniversary Issue
June 2, 2002 Hillbilly-Music.com Attends Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree
June 1, 2002 Hillbilly-Music.com Attends the Grand Ole Opry

Press Releases — 2002
September 25, 2002 Slim Whitman 'Earliest & Rarest Recordings' Debuts This Week
September 22, 2002 Tougher'n a Boot By Buster Jenkins
August 31, 2002 Dusty Owens, Early Star of the Wheeling Jamboree CD Released
August 26, 2002 27th National Old Time Country & Bluegrass Music Festival And Pioneer Exposition Of Arts and Crafts
August 17, 2002 50 Years of Yodeling with Janet McBride
May 30, 2002 19th Annual International Country Music Conference
May 17, 2002 Twelve 'Pioneers' To Be Inducted

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