Country music producer and steel guitarist Tommy Detamore has died suddenly at 70, his wife announced Thursday. \u201cIt is with a broken heart I share that my husband of 41 years, Tommy Detamore, went home to be with the Lord yesterday,\u201d Sandra Detamore wrote in a Facebook post. \u201cTommy was and will always be remembered as a respected musician, producer, collaborator, mentor, and creative force in country music.\u201d She added that she is in the midst of making funeral plans: \u201cThis way we can all say our goodbyes, since this was so sudden.\u201d Detamore began playing pedal steel guitar in the 1970s and went on to build a decades-long career in the industry. In 1991, he founded Cherry Ridge Studio in Floresville, Texas, where he worked with artists including Ray Price, Dallas Wayne, Johnny Bush, The Texas Tornadoes, Ronnie Milsap, Raul Malo, Kyle Park and Tony Booth. \u201cI take comfort in knowing he is at peace and is now with his family and that his music will live on and will be cherished forever,\u201d his wife wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Country music producer and steel guitarist Tommy Detamore has died suddenly at 70, his wife announced Thursday. \u201cIt is with a broken heart I share that my husband of 41 years, Tommy Detamore, went home to be with the Lord yesterday,\u201d Sandra Detamore wrote in a Facebook post. \u201cTommy was and will always be remembered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233080,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233079\/revisions\/2233080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}