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Joe Diffie has tested positive for COVID-19.

James Otto Sweet Heart

James Otto Sweet Heart

Banned
Go here for the news. May a full recovery be made.

God bless you and Joe always!!!

Holly (one of his many fans)
 
Joe Diffie from COVID-19

JOE DIFFIE PASSED AWAY AT AGE 61 FROM COMPLICATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS (COVID 19)


NASHVILLE, Tenn. – GRAMMY®-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19). His family respects their privacy at this time.

ABOUT JOE DIFFIE
CMA and GRAMMY®-winning country music legend Joe Diffie continues to be celebrated in hit song homages from Jason Aldean (“1994”) to Chris Young (“Raised On Country”), with a reign that includes 13 albums and more than 20 Top 10 hits to his credit. As one of the most successful singer/songwriters of the 1990s, Diffie also penned hits for artists like Tim McGraw, Conway Twitty, and Jo Dee Messina. A Tulsa native, his chart-dominating iconic songs include: "Home," “If The Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),” “New Way (To Light Up An Old Flame),” “Ships That Don’t Come In,” “Honky Tonk Attitude,” “Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox,” “John Deere Green,” “Third Rock From The Sun,” “Pickup Man,” “So Help Me Girl,” “Bigger Than The Beatles,” “Texas Size Heartache,” “A Night To Remember,” “It’s Always Somethin’” and many more. Recently, he released Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie!, his first-ever vinyl LP. The Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer also celebrated a pinnacle career milestone of more than 25 years as a member of the historic Grand Ole Opry.


https://news.yahoo.com/joe-diffie-90s-country-music-194317008.html
 
I got to meet him at my one and only CMA Music Festival in 2000 which was named Fan Fair at the time and again in 2007 when he came here to my area. A beautiful man Joe was. Sadly I am having a problem getting my favorite picture of me and him together up here and so in the mean time, here is one of his best songs in my opinion.

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

P.S. I pray that his 1992 Music City News award show performance of "The Ships That Don't Come In" is somewhere online again someday soon because it is awesome!!!
 
James Otto Sweet Heart said:
I got to meet him at my one and only CMA Music Festival in 2000 which was named Fan Fair at the time and again in 2007 when he came here to my area. A beautiful man Joe was. Sadly I am having a problem getting my favorite picture of me and him together up here and so in the mean time, here is one of his best songs in my opinion.

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

P.S. I pray that his 1992 Music City News award show performance of "The Ships That Don't Come In" is somewhere online again someday soon because it is awesome!!!
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This song of his always gets me smiling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6zIpW8z1w
 
More details coming in about the late Joe Diffie. His survivors includes his wife Tara, who Joe married in May of 2018, as well as five children.

At the end of 2019, Joe released a vinyl collection of his hits titled "Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie." The title comes from a song written by Thomas Rhett and performed by Jason Aldean called "1994," that namechecked Joe Diffie in the song's chorus.
 
^^^ I want that Music City News performance back up online. I remember it from when it was first shown all them years ago and I only turned ten years old back then. His voice at the end of the performance.....I pray that the clip is online again soon. To me, it NEVER should've been removed.

God bless you and everyone who loved him always!!!

Holly
 
TheBigA said:
They're not saying, but the word "complications" tells me there was something else first, either heart or lung, and then this hit.
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The most common complication seems to be pneumonia, which would certainly be worse for a person with a weakened heart or lungs. What I have noticed is that all the celebrity obits I've been seeing use that "complications of" modifier rather than just flat-out attributing the death to the virus itself. Whether this is just language bloat (like "red-colored" instead of simply "red," or "early morning hours" instead of "early morning") or a clue that the virus isn't fatal to those whose vital organs haven't already been compromised, I haven't a clue.
 
^^^ Pneumonia was the final piece that completed Glen Frey's life ending picture. I don't know what else was already there. The only thing that I know about Joe is that cigarettes were in his possession at one point. When I got to meet him in 2007, if my memory serves me well enough, I believe that he said that smoking was a thing of his past. Sure, the habit could've made a comeback, but I honestly do not know if it did or not.

This is my mom and me with him at my one and only CMA Music Festival in 2000 which was known as Fan Fair at the time.

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God bless you and his family and the rest of his fan base always!!!

Holly

P.S. I have a picture of us together when I saw him in 2007, but it was taken with one of them instant cameras and so the shot isn't as good as this one is.
 
I didn't think that I would ever see it again, but I found it!!!

Go here and start watching at the 1:21:16 mark of the clip for Joe's Music City News performance of "The Ships That Don't Come In".

God bless you and his family and the rest of his fans always!!!

Holly

P.S. I didn't think that Joe would ever give it up at the end, I LOVE the smile on his face while listening to the crowd go bonkers for him!!!
 
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https://apnews.com/9e178d6d334f2692aec7c240923d933d

Now Joe Diffe is named as a target for COVID-19


Conspiracy theorists are twisting facts online about country singer Joe Diffie’s death from COVID-19 complications in an effort to promote their claims that health officials are exaggerating the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

Diffie, who topped the charts in the 1990s with honky-tonk singles including “Home” and “Pickup Man,” died in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 29 after he tested positive for the virus. He was 61.

In the days following his death, Facebook and Twitter users posing as internet sleuths falsely claimed media reports hid that he had lung cancer. He did not. The untrue claims appear to have stemmed from an obituary posted online for Diffie’s father, Joe Diffie Sr., who passed away in November 2018 from cancer.
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