Walter Hyatt

Age: 46

Summary: country western singer, songwriter and guitarist who had a warm, gentle vocal style and a taste for arrangements that veered toward jazz and swing, who gained recognition as the founder of the Austin, Texas-based acoustic country trio Uncle Walt's Band with fiddle player and guitarist Champ Hood and honky-tonk star David Ball in 1970, who also was a backup singer on singer Lyle Lovett's 1989 album Large Band and whose last solo album, the swing- and blues-flavored Music Town, was produced in 1993.

Cause of Death: Killed in ValuJet Flight 592 airplane accident

Born: October 25, 1949

Died: May 11, 1996

Location: Miami, Florida