Billy Walker, Country Star, Killed in Car Crash
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James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
Billy Walker, a longtime Grand Old Opry member, has died in a car crash in Alabama. He was 77.
Billy Walker, the Grand Ole Opry legend whose hits included “Charlie’s Shoes” and “Cross the Brazos at Waco” died in a wreck along an Alabama interstate Sunday. He was 77.
Walker was killed with three others when a van they were riding in ran off Interstate 65 south of Montgomery and overturned, state troopers said. Also killed in the wreck were Bettie Walker, 61; and Charles Lilly Jr., 44, both of Hendersonville, Tennessee; and Daniel Patton Sr., 40, of Hermitage, Tennessee. Joshua Brooks, 21, also of Hendersonville, was injured. His condition was not immediately available.
According to the Opry’s Web site, Billy Walker was born in Ralls, Texas, and built an early career as the “Traveling Texan, the Masked Singer of Country Songs,” and later shared the stage with Elvis Presley. Walker joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1960.
A shame. I used to drive that stretch of I-65 all the time.
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