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Feb 06, 2012

WAMU Bluegrass Man Jerry Gray Dies at 78

Sad news from WAMU today with the announcement that the public radio station’s longtime bluegrass DJ, Jerry Gray, died Thursday at his home in Virginia. In an obituary, the City Paper reports that Gray, whose real name was Gerald Poulsen, died of complications from a heart transplant operation he underwent in 1989. He was 78.

 
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