On this day, December 16, 2003, the music world lost one of its brightest and most talented singer/songwriters. American musician and songwriter, Gary Stewart, tragically took his own life at the age ...

Stewart had a chance at country-music stardom, but the singer was more at home in the honky-tonks.

Troubled singer-songwriters are a mainstay in the mythology of American roots music. Hank Williams died in the back of a Cadillac when he was 29, setting the template for many other whiskey-bent, ...