{"id":1319155,"date":"2020-03-29T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819599"},"modified":"2020-03-29T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:04:02","slug":"joe-diffie-dies-from-complications-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/joe-diffie-dies-from-complications-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Diffie Dies From Complications of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691277?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\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n9m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Joe Diffie, one of the most popular country artists of the \u201990s and early 2000s, died Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 61. <\/p>\n<p>Diffie charted his first No. 1 hit, \u201cHome,\u201d in 1990. Other chart-topping singles include \u201cIf the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),\u201d \u201cThird Rock From the Sun,\u201d \u201cPickup Man,\u201d and \u201cBigger Than the Beatles.\u201d He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 and appeared there in 2019 for the induction of Luke Combs, who cited him an inspiration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zz6zIpW8z1w?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zz6zIpW8z1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the finest traditionalists of his era, Diffie nonetheless built his career on lighthearted songs such as \u201cProp Me Up Beside the Jukebox (When I Die)\u201d from 1993, and \u201cJohn Deere Green,\u201d from 1994. As a songwriter, he claimed a three-week No. 1 hit with Jo Dee Messina\u2019s \u201cMy Give a Damn\u2019s Busted\u201d in 2005.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o40fwZgSFPI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o40fwZgSFPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1819599\/joe-diffie-dies-from-complications-of-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 9m ago Joe Diffie, one of the most popular country artists of the \u201990s and early 2000s, died Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 61. Diffie charted his first No. 1 hit, \u201cHome,\u201d in 1990. Other chart-topping singles include \u201cIf the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),\u201d \u201cThird Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:51:28","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}