He died today from the CO-VID virus/ he had only announced it on the 27th that he had it...

I worked a week for a professional fundraising organization around 2002 (I quit once I realized they were actually pocketing at least 90% of the donations) and the big incentive to donate $20 a month to Idaho Firefighters were free tickets to a Joe Diffie concert later that summer. I was astonished at how much of a draw that was for people, given how much of his music felt like novelty albums.

Sad news. RIP pickup man