By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Nov 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM Updated on 11/09 at 10:37 AM
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Garth Brooks. Courtesy
AOL's country music site The Boot reports that music journalist
Patsi Bale Cox died Saturday in Nashville following a long battle with emphysema. She was 66.
The Kansas native shared a long friendship with Oklahoma native
Garth Brooks, whom she met while writing press items for Brooks' label, Capitol Records. She worked with him until 2005. She published a book, "
The Garth Factor," about his influence, in 2009.
At the time, she said to The Boot: "After '
The Dance' had been out, a friend of mine lost her husband, and that song was a huge influence on her," Cox said. "I told Garth about that and told him she was going to visit me. I picked her up at the airport, and we went to a party for Garth. I had not talked to him in a month and a half, but when he saw us come in, he walked straight across the room and he said, 'Patsi, is this the friend you were telling me about?' I said yes, and he immediately talked to her in a wonderful way about her loss. It was a stunning thing for him to remember me talking about her and relate to it. There was nothing phony about that. It was a very caring thing."
Cox also has written biographies of
Wynonna Judd,
Loretta Lynn,
Tony Orlando,
Tanya Tucker,
Pat Benatar and more.
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