{"id":11485,"date":"2020-11-25T06:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2020-11-25T06:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:47:32","slug":"90s-country-singer-hal-ketchum-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/90s-country-singer-hal-ketchum-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;90s Country Singer Hal Ketchum Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>HAL KETCHUM<\/strong>\u00a0passed away on Monday due to complications from dementia.\u00a0 He was 67.\u00a0 His wife shared the news on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hal.ketchum.7\/photos\/a.202693923248594\/1651074328410539\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 It was back in April that she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/131886\">announced<\/a>\u00a0he had Alzheimer&#8217;s and was retiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hal had 11 Top 30 hits in the &#8217;90s, including\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Small Town Saturday Night&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Past the Point of Rescue&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Hearts Are Gonna Roll&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 He released 11\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hal_Ketchum#Studio_albums\">albums<\/a>, and was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1994.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">His career slowed down in the late &#8217;90s as he suffered through a series of health issues. \u00a0He was diagnosed with the spinal condition acute transverse myelitis, which caused temporary paralysis of his left side and he had to relearn how to play guitar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">His last album was\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m The Troubadour&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, which came out in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7D2LKCvx3KQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; HAL KETCHUM\u00a0passed away on Monday due to complications from dementia.\u00a0 He was 67.\u00a0 His wife shared the news on\u00a0Facebook.\u00a0 It was back in April that she\u00a0announced\u00a0he had Alzheimer&#8217;s and was retiring. Hal had 11 Top 30 hits in the &#8217;90s, including\u00a0&#8220;Small Town Saturday Night&#8221;,\u00a0&#8220;Past the Point of Rescue&#8221;, and\u00a0&#8220;Hearts Are Gonna Roll&#8221;.\u00a0 He released","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":11487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 05:23:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/90s-country-singer-hal-ketchum-has-passed-away\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}