25 Years Ago Today, Country Music Said Goodbye to the “Nashville Sound” Innovator Behind Hits by Porter Wagoner and Ferlin Husky

Bob Ferguson, a key architect of the "Nashville sound" who shaped some of country music's biggest hits, died of cancer on 22 July 2001 at the University of Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, aged 73. As a producer and songwriter, he helped define the polished, orchestral country style of the era, work