The decade has also seen death and tragedy in country . Mindy McCready , a rising star of the late 1990s whose personal problems soon overshadowed her music , committed suicide during early 2013 . Glen Campbell , a vastly influential country guitarist and vocalist from the 1960s onward , was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease in late 2010 and consequently retired from show business in 2013 ; he died in 2017 . Randy Travis , a neo-traditionalist star who helped revive the genre in the mid-to-late 1980s , had several run-ins with the law in 2012 and in 2013 suffered a massive stroke . Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry , one of the genre 's most popular duos , was killed in a helicopter crash in 2017 . Also in 2017 , 58 concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival event in Las Vegas , Nevada – where Jason Aldean was performing at the time gunfire broke out – were killed in a mass shooting ; Aldean escaped the incident uninjured and a week later paid tribute to the victims on '' Saturday Night Live ''
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