November 19, 2020
Texan Doug Supernaw passes
He is best known for “Reno” (1993), “I Don’t Call Him Daddy” (1993) and “Not Enough Hours in the Night” (1996). Supernaw, who was 60 when he passed, was nominated as the ACM’s New Male Artist of the Year and earned a Gold record for his Red and Rio Grande album in 1994.
In 2016, Doug Supernaw was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.
Noted as a top songwriter as well as a good-time showman, Supernaw’s career was derailed by mental illness and substance abuse. But during the last few years of his life he fought to reclaim it.
In January 2019, he sought treatment for a persistent cough. His initial diagnosis was pneumonia, but subsequent tests revealed Stage IV cancer in his lungs and bladder. A bladder tumor was removed in March 2019
On Sunday, Oct. 18, his wife
posted on Facebook that her husband had been placed in home hospice care and that the cancer had spread to his brain and spine.
Noted as a top songwriter as well as a good-time showman, Supernaw’s career was derailed by mental illness and substance abuse. But during the last few years of his life he fought to reclaim it.
In January 2019, he sought treatment for a persistent cough. His initial diagnosis was pneumonia, but subsequent tests revealed Stage IV cancer in his lungs and bladder. A bladder tumor was removed in March 2019
On Sunday, Oct. 18, his wife
posted on Facebook that her husband had been placed in home hospice care and that the cancer had spread to his brain and spine.
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