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Slim Whitman, Country Singer, Dead at 90

Going to those tumbling tumbleweeds in the sky

Reason Staff | 6.19.2013 1:24 PM

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Country singer Slim Whitman has died at the age of 90.

Whitman died Wednesday in Florida of heart failure, his son-in-law Roy Beagle said, according to the Associated Press and other media sources.

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