Died On This Date (September 22, 2007) Larry Fuller / Bluegrass Great
themusicsover Larry Fuller
1949 – September 22, 2007
Larry Fuller was a bluegrass guitar picker who was well known in and around the Kentucky music community. Fuller began his music career during the 1970s when he was working as a coal miner. A job injury in 1986 forced him out of the mines and into music full time. A traditionalist, Fuller’s music was rooted deep in the mountain music he grew up hearing around him. Larry Fuller’s life came to a tragic end when he died in a fire that engulfed his tour bus. For reasons unknown, Fuller was inside the bus as it was parked in his driveway around 2 am. He was 58 years old.
Boz Burrell is best remembered as a singer for King Crimson during the early ’70s and as the bassist for Bad Company from 1973 until 1999 (on and off). But before all that, Burrell was pegged to replace the Who’s Roger Daltrey when the other band members decided to fire him in the mid ’60s. That never came to be, and Burrell went on to record several singles on his own. Boz Burrell suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 60.
Jim Croce was an American singer songwriter who was quickly becoming one of the best selling artists of the ’70s when his life was tragically cut short when he was at his prime. Croce’s career started while in college in the early ’60s, playing in local bands along the coffee house circuit. In those early days, Croce began to form a local following while writing upwards of 3000 songs. He soon began performing with his wife as Jim & Ingrid Croce and in 1968, the duo was signed to Capitol Records and released their debut album. The album failed to ignite their career, so Croce decided he had had enough with the music business and to a job driving trucks. It was while sitting in the cab of the truck that he began to write songs about ordinary people, developing him into a songwriter that would soon become famous. By the early 70s, Croce began writing and recording with a musician he had recently met, 
