Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks, lost her life in an automobile accident in West Texas on Friday night, her cousin Michael Lynch told CBS News.
The country music group Dixie Chicks lost one of its founding members, Laura Lynch, in a head-on collision on a highway close to El Paso, Texas. She was sixty-five.
Nikol Endres, a local judge of the peace, verified Lynch’s identification and the death.
About 70 miles east of El Paso, Lynch, a resident of Fort Worth, was traveling east on Route 62 near Cornudas, Texas, when a pickup truck traveling west entered her lane and struck her vehicle head-on, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. At the scene, she was pronounced deceased.
Lynch, a bassist, together with Robin Lynn Macy, sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, and others, formed the Dixie Chicks, well known today, in Dallas in 1988 after growing up on her grandfather’s ranch in Texas.
Laura Lynch’s Early Life:
Only two albums were released by the original lineup: the 1990 debut “Thank Heavens for Dale Evans” and “Little Ol’ Cowgirl” in 1992.
Lynch called the band’s sound “cowgirl music” in a 1992 interview that was broadcast on National Public Radio.
She described her style of cowgirl music as a blend of acoustic, bluegrass, and vintage country music. We all join in on four- and three-part harmony. We mix in some country swing and instrumentals. That’s the type of cowgirl music we play.
In 1992, Macy quit the band. When the surviving three published “Shouldn’t A Told You That” the following year, they started to have some success. The band performed at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration ball in 1993.
However, Lynch was kicked out of the group in 1995, and Natalie Maines took her place.
“We were approaching our seventh year; we were beginning to reassess things,” Maguire stated in a 1996 interview with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We were deciding on a course of action.”
“What do we want to do in the future? Where do we want to be in five years?” Maguire said. Laura probably didn’t envision herself traveling in five years.
The Chicks referred to Lynch as a “bright light” on social media, saying that her “infectious energy and humor gave a spark to our band’s early days.”
According to the Chicks, “Laura had a gift for design, a love of all things Texas, and was instrumental in the band’s early success.” “Her indisputable skills enabled us to go from street corner busking to performing on stages throughout Texas and the mid-West.”
Details of those who survived were not readily accessible.
Lynch, according to The Star-Telegram, left the Dixie Chicks and went on to work as a public relations officer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Lynch began oil painting and devoted much of her time to raising her kid, she told The Associated Press in 2003.
Regarding her time in the band, Lynch remarked, “It was worth it.” “To do it, I would become anemic all over again.”
