{"id":18217,"date":"2019-09-05T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1811513"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:43:46","slug":"kylie-rae-harris-dies-in-tragic-accident-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/kylie-rae-harris-dies-in-tragic-accident-in-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Rae Harris Dies in Tragic Accident in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:681317?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">10m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Kylie Rae Harris, a young country singer-songwriter from Texas, was killed in a tragic car accident in Taos, New Mexico on Wednesday night (Sept. 4). She\u2019d been in town to play Michael Hearne\u2019s 17th Annual Big Barn Dance Music Festival at Kit Carson Park there on Thursday. She was just 30 years old, and leaves behind a 6-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Texas country treasure Radney Foster had taken Harris under his wing years ago, and he shared the heart-breaking news on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that I inform you that last night we lost Kylie Rae Harris. She was my background vocalist, my band mate at times, hired gun in the studio, and a hell of good young songwriter. Soul and joy ached out of her voice every time she sang. She was full of life and love,\u201d Foster wrote. \u201cMostly I thought of her as my friend. I loved her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is a little more diminished. Heaven\u2019s choir is much stronger,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is not a great image but it is her walking in the rain because she wanted to see the sunset. That says it all. Godspeed, Kylie Rae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris had posted about her Taos show on Instagram, saying, \u201cMagical times with wonderful people await!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B18xlDvlK-w\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811513\/kylie-rae-harris-dies-in-tragic-accident-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 10m ago Kylie Rae Harris, a young country singer-songwriter from Texas, was killed in a tragic car accident in Taos, New Mexico on Wednesday night (Sept. 4). She\u2019d been in town to play Michael Hearne\u2019s 17th Annual Big Barn Dance Music Festival at Kit Carson Park there on Thursday. She was just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 10:02:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}