Posted on 09/10/2023 10:12:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Country music artist Charlie Robison poses for a photo in Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 2009. Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after a medical procedure left him unable to sing, has died. A family representative says Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 59.
Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after complications from a medical procedure left him unable to sing, died Sunday. He was 59.
Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest and other complications, according to a family representative.
Robison launched his music career in the late 1980s, playing in local Austin bands like Two Hoots and a Holler before forming his own Millionaire Playboys. In 1996, he released his solo debut, “Bandera,” named for the Texas Hill Country town where his family has had a ranch for generations.
When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Lucky Dog imprint, which was devoted to rawer country. His 2001 album “Step Right Up” produced his only Top 40 country song, “I Want You Bad."
In 2018, Robison announced that he had permanently lost the ability to sing following a surgical procedure on his throat. "Therefore, with a very heavy heart I am officially retiring from the stage and studio,” he wrote on Facebook.
Robison served as a judge for one year on USA Network's “Nashville Star,” a reality TV show in which contestants lived together while competing for a country music recording contract.
He is survived by his wife, Kristen Robison, and four children and stepchildren. Three of his children were with his first wife, Emily Strayer, a founding member of the superstar country band The Chicks. They divorced in 2008.
Safe and effective.
Rest In Peace, Charlie.
BTTT!!!
Entertainers tend to live short lives.
R.I.P.
so then why is Robert DiNero still torturing us?
him and Bette Midler need to meet the daisy fields
I know what you mean.
Perhaps a mite callous, but do you suppose he died to get away from that (Dixie) Chick?
The Dixie Chicks a “superstar country band”? ROTFL. They suck. They’ve always sucked.
Sad story, was he fully vaxed?
Actually they are very good but they have to play the game. They hated GW Bush as much as freepers do now
Aptly put, Appy.
I get confused by people who think all this wealthy liberals believe what they say. It’s all just a virtue signal. Watch what they do, not what they say.
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