A legendary figure in the world of wrestling. A member of the final iteration of Johnny Cash’s backing band. The founder of Nashville’s longtime homeless outreach nonprofit Room In The Inn. A former Tennessee Titan. A former Tennessee governor. Songwriters, media figures, public servants, advocates, activists and artists. 

These are just a few of the Nashvillians, former Nashvillians and other locally significant figures who died in 2023. In our annual In Memoriam issue, we at the Nashville Scene commemorate some of the irreplaceable figures we lost over the past year.

Read on as we remember their legacies.

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