{"id":95885,"date":"2023-12-27T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=95885"},"modified":"2023-12-27T05:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:10:46","slug":"dixie-chicks-founding-member-killed-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/12\/dixie-chicks-founding-member-killed-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Chicks Founding Member Killed In Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Lynch, one of the founding members of the Dixie Chicks has died at the age of 65.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/laura-lynch-founding-member-the-chicks-dead-65-car-crash-8419979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to People.com<\/a>, she was in a head-on collision on Friday, December 22 in Texas and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch was travelling eastbound on Highway 62 in Hudspeth County when another westbound driver attempted to pass a vehicle on a two-way undivided portion of the road. That driver struck Lynch&#8217;s vehicle head-on and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Lynch was the original bassist and vocalist and recorded with the Dixie Chicks on their first three albums.<\/p>\n<p>She left in 1993 and was replaced by Natalie Maines two years later.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicks broke into the mainstream with their fourth LP in 1998, Wide Open Spaces.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C1Nc5WrSPO4\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Lynch, one of the founding members of the Dixie Chicks has died at the age of 65.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":87155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[9340,2043,9341,2970,4277],"class_list":["post-95885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-car-crash","tag-dixie-chicks","tag-laura-lynch","tag-texas","tag-the-chicks"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 18:05:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/12\/dixie-chicks-founding-member-killed-in-car-crash\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95886,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95885\/revisions\/95886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}