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country MUSIC PEOPLE OCTOBER 2019 Volume 50 Number 10 Issue 596 News Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London Tragic loss of rising country star Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Tony Byworth, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Stan Hitchcock, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Printed by Micropress www.micropress.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com U p and coming Texas country singer Kylie third driver escaping injury, the local sherriff’s Rae Harris was killed in a three-vehicle department have suggested that Harris crash near Taos, N.M. on September 4. She was most likely at fault for the crash and was 30 years old. that alcohol is suspected to have been a In an emotional and eerie video posted toxicology results that will confirm or deny the Dallas-based singer reminisced about alcohol or other substances in both victims. childhood memories of travelling on those suggested that they believe that Harris’ vehicle of my life coming to Taos with my dad, my hit the back of another car before veering into sisters, my grandparents lived here, my uncle oncoming traffic. Harris had a DWI conviction still lives here. Literally everybody that was in 2017 for being twice the legal limit. here has passed away, except for my uncle, Among the online tributes to the late singer and including my dad. Driving these roads were fellow artists Maren Morris, Randy today — I’ve been driving for almost 12 hours Rogers, and Curtis Grimes and at a celebration — you would think that’s so exhausting and of life on September 11 Harris’ daughter Corbie boring. The last couple of hours driving through sang Twenty Years From Now. in the back seat as a little kid when my dad was making these treks here — and I started getting really sad. 4 cmp - OCTOBER 2019 The Taos County Sheriff’s Office also same roads, saying, “I spent the last 20 years the mountains and remembering my place ©2019 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. contributing factor but authorities are awaiting on her Instagram hours before her death Harris released an eponymously titled EP earlier this year containing the now incredibly poignant Twenty Years From Now, in which she sings “I hope I’m still around twenty years from now” in a song dedicated to her six-year-old daughter Corbie. The singer, who released her first EP in 2013, was heading to Taos to perform at the Big Barn Dance. Since the crash, which also claimed the life of 16-year-old Maria Elena Cruz with a