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Nick Reed


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Russellville, KY USA
Post  Posted 8 Apr 2021 1:26 pm    
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Dennis Payne, Nashville Guitarist, Songwriter, and Recording Engineer passed away Thursday morning (4-8-21) at 10:30am. He suffered with complications following a recent back surgery. For those of you not familiar with Dennis, he wrote the song "Highway Patrol" that was recorded by Junior Brown.




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Gary Hoetker

 

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California, USA
Post  Posted 8 Apr 2021 6:40 pm    
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Used to see Dennis on Dave Stogner’s Country Corner a daily CM TV shoe here in Bakersfield in the mid 1960’s. It featured Norm Hamlet on pedal steel and Red Simpson. A funny story I remember about Dennis on one of the shows is when he started to sing a song and suddenly stopped and said “ I forgot the words”. He was really good on ballads. RIP !!
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Laney Hicks

 

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Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 8 Apr 2021 7:06 pm    
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This has saddened Russ and me so to the core. We both loved Dennis as a musician and fine singer. But, there was something good in the man, himself, that we just admired and thought a lot of......and will miss very much. Just knowing he awoke in the tender arms of Jesus helps our human sense of loss....a little bit tonight.
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Dave Mudgett


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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
Post  Posted 8 Apr 2021 7:17 pm    
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So sorry to hear this. Great writer, picker, singer, you name it, and a nice guy. I used to go see him playing with Smiley whenever I could find him playing in Nashville when I'd be in town. He just kicked butt with that '57 Tele into a Peavey Bandit 65. He made that thing talk. RIP Dennis.
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Pete Finney

 

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Nashville Tn.
Post  Posted 8 Apr 2021 10:06 pm    
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So sad to read this. Dennis was a great guy, great musician and singer and has a pretty cool Bakersfield-related history. He put out records under his own name on various labels in the 60s and 70s and did sessions as a guitar player; he's featured on the recent Bear Family box-set on Bakersfield.

I've known Dennis since the mid-eighties when I'd just moved to town and he married a good friend of mine; he always had some great stories. More recently he was playing guitar and singing with Becky Hinson and the Nashville Palace Band a few years back and I got to play some gigs with them and renew our acquaintance. I knew he was not in great health, but sure hate to hear this.
RIP Dennis

Here's a link with some of his history:
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/DennisPayne1.html
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Nick Reed


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Russellville, KY USA
Post  Posted 10 Apr 2021 7:07 am    
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Talk about a coinsidence . . . last night we were watching "Hee Haw" on Circle TV about 8:15pm or so. Buck Owens started singin "The Girl from Japan" with his Buckaroo's. I noticed the guitar player standing behind Buck was real tall and playing a brownish-sunburst Telecaster. He had a beard and dark hair. But low and behold it was young Dennis Payne back then playing guitar for the Buckaroo's. Seemed weird knowing he had just died about 9 hours before this show aired.
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