{"id":31565,"date":"2020-03-31T01:59:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31565"},"modified":"2020-03-31T01:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:59:29","slug":"joe-diffie-dies-at-61-from-coronavirus-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/joe-diffie-dies-at-61-from-coronavirus-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Diffie Dies at 61 From Coronavirus Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Diffie - Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die) (Official Music Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vMiEFyTuuh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American country music singer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/joe-diffie-tickets\">Joe Diffie<\/a> has passed away at age 61 due to complications related to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGrammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19),\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the statement read.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cHis family respects their privacy at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days before his death, Diffie became the first country star to go public with a coronavirus diagnosis. Then, he released a statement saying he had tested positive for coronavirus and was receiving treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;My family and I are asking for privacy at this time. We want to remind the public and all my fans to be vigilant, cautious and careful during this pandemic.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Singer of hits like \u201cJohn Deere Green\u201d and \u201cIf the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) was supposed to continue his national concert tour, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/mark-chesnutt-tickets\">Mark Chesnutt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/david-lee-murphy-tickets\">David Lee Murphy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diffie is in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He won a Grammy Award in 1998 for &#8220;Same Old Train,&#8221; a collaboration with a dozen other artists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/clint-black-tickets\">Clint Black<\/a>, Merle Haggard, Patty Loveless, and Randy Travis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among his albums, 1993&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honky Tonk Attitude<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and 1994&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third Rock from the Sun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Meanwhile, 1992&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regular Joe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and 1995&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Life&#8217;s So Funny<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are both certified gold. His latest album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was released in late 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2013, Diffie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/aaron-tippin-tickets\">Aaron Tippin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/sammy-kershaw-tickets\">Sammy Kershaw<\/a> released a collaborative album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All in the Same Boat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In July 2019, he released the honky-tonk tune \u201cAs Long as There\u2019s a Bar,\u201d and in November issued his first-ever vinyl LP, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, featuring updated versions of 11 of his hits and a cover of the Stevie Ray Vaughan tune \u201cPride and Joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of Diffie\u2019s country contemporaries tweeted after hearing of Diffie&#8217;s death and offered their condolences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of them was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/brad-paisley-tickets\">Brad Paisley<\/a>, who said: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m devastated by the loss of my friend @JoeDiffieOnline. I can\u2019t find adequate words. But the records he made, that voice, the twinkle in his eye, and our memories cannot be taken away by this disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please celebrate his music today everyone, go listen again to his records.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American country music singer Joe Diffie has passed away at age 61 due to complications related to COVID-19. \u201cGrammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31566,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions\/31566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}