Country music singer Joe Diffie died yesterday at the age of 61 — just two days after releasing a statement saying he'd been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via GettyJoe Diffie, photographed attending the 27th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on May 29, 1992.early
in March, but Joe Diffie's passing yesterday, at the age of 61 — just two days after releasing a statement about his diagnosis through his publicist — marked the first reported loss of a country star to coronavirus-related complications. An admired, early-'90s neotraditionalist, Diffie had a belated professional start but a quick breakthrough that came a few years into a wave of hard-country singers who favored naturalistic production.
Born Dec. 28 1958, Diffie attended school in tiny Velma, Okla., where he was introduced to the traditionalist mentality — of defining and defending a distinct sonic lineage — by his self-taught, banjo playing father. He arguing with his dad about the permissibility of"Amos Moses," the country-funk story-song made famous by eventual Country Music Hall of Famer Jerry Reed in 1970, his old man insisting,"'You ain't playing that rock and roll in my house.'"play in a rock band in his youth, and later, during a nine-year stretch working as a machinist at an iron foundry, in regionally touring gospel andoutfits.
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