Founding Dixie Chicks Member Laura Lynch Useless at 65 After Automobile Crash

Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, has died after being concerned in a automotive crash … TMZ has discovered.

The musician’s cousin, Mick Lynch, tells us Laura handed away Friday exterior of El Paso, TX simply after sundown whereas driving from there to close by Dell Metropolis — which is about an hour and a half away going east. We’re advised she was touring on a freeway and received right into a collision.

No different particulars concerning the actual circumstances of the accident have been instantly obtainable.

Lynch co-founded the well-known music group — now recognized simply as The Chicks — alongside Robin Lynn Macy, Martie Erwin and Emily Erwin again in 1989 … serving because the upright bassist and ultimately taking over the position of lead vocalist for the band.

At first, that they had a bluegrass/conventional nation sound … and towards the start of their profession, they have been largely a neighborhood Texas act that toured the realm and surrounding states.

Ultimately, they launched their first album, “Thank Heavens for Dale Evans,” in 1990 … which did not produce any charting singles. Ditto for his or her 2nd album, “Little Ol’ Cowgirl,” from 1992 — though that one featured a music that received coated and received some play, “Past the Point of Rescue.” It was throughout this era that one other OG member, Robin Lynn Macy, exited.

Come ’93, it was simply 3 Dixie Chicks they usually launched one more album, ‘Should not a Instructed You That,’ which did not obtain a lot business success both. This was the final album Lynch contributed to earlier than leaving the band in ’95 … when Natalie Maines changed her.

There’s totally different causes cited for why Lynch left … but it surely seems she was heading in a distinct route large image — desirous to give attention to household and private issues. At any charge, in interviews since — LL expressed no regrets about her resolution, and went on to reside a comparatively non-public life. After all, within the following years … the Dixie Chicks caught hearth.

With Maines, the sound of the band modified to change into a bit extra trendy … and Maines took up lead vocal duties — with sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer staying on too. They broke by way of into the mainstream in ’98 with ‘Broad Open Areas,’ and took off.

After all, the Dixie Chicks have been on the heart of loads of controversy heading into the 2000s — together with their remarks on George W. Bush and the Iraq Conflict — and ultimately … they modified their band identify too because of the racist southern undertones affiliated with the OG.

As for Laura, she married Mac Tull and had a daughter, each of whom she’s survived by. She was 65.