Porter Wagoner dies at 80.

[SeattleGirl]

Another "old timer" passes away:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —

Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.

Wagoner, who had survived an abdominal aneurysm in 2006, was hospitalized again this month and his publicist disclosed he had lung cancer. He died at 8:25 p.m. CDT in a Nashville hospice, a spokeswoman for the Grand Ole Opry said.

Country singer and Opry member Dierks Bentley visited Wagoner in the hospice over the weekend and said Wagoner led them in prayer, thanking God for his friends, his family and the Grand Ole Opry.

"The loss of Porter is a great loss for the Grand Ole Opry and for country music, and personally it is a great loss of a friend I was really just getting to know," Bentley said. "I feel blessed for the time I had with him."

http://www6.comcast.net/music/articles/2007/10/29/Obit.Wagoner/

[johnnie]

1. RIP Porter

I always dug his clothes, he was so country/western.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Yes, he was.

And unabashedly so. His duets with Dolly were pretty cool.

[BeyondGeography]

3. The Green, Green Grass of Home

country music at its best. Thanks for singing your heart out, Porter.

[asthmaticeog]

4. That's sad, he was truly great. nt

[kwassa]

5. Sort of the Liberace of Country Western

check out this coat.