Luke Bell Dies: Country Singer Who Went Missing 10 Days Ago Found Dead At 32

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Country singer-songwriter Luke Bell, whose throwback style blended strains of Texas, Nashville and Bakersfield, has died, according to his friend and collaborator Matt Kinman. He was 32.

Bell, who battled severe bipolar disorder, had traveled Arizona with Kinman to work, but went missing on Saturday, August 20th in Tucson. He was found dead about a week later, according to SavingCountryMusic.com, “not far from where he disappeared, and in a manner we all feared he would be when we first heard the news.” His cause of death is still pending an autopsy.

Kinman, who had played with Bell for the past six years told the outlet, “We came down here to Arizona, to work down here, play some music, and he just took off. He was in the back of the truck. I went in to get something to eat. I came out, and he’d got out of the truck and left.”

After he went missing Kinman speculated, “He could be in Tucson. But it’s possible he jumped a freight train,” which wasn’t unusual for Bell. “Semi-homeless and generally adrift,” according to SaveCountryMusic, Bell hitchhiked and couch surfed as he honed his chops during his formative musical years.

In 2015, Rolling Stone described his sound as “classic honky-tonk with a wink and a yodel.” That unique blend earned him opening spots with Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Jr. and Dwight Yoakam.

Bell released three albums: a self-published debut in 2012, Don’t Mind If I Do in 2014 and an eponymous disc in 2016.

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