Country music lost a Grammy nominated musician to cancer Friday. Warren "Gates" Nichols, steel pedal guitarist for Confederate Railroad lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.The band, named the Academy of Country Music's best new vocal group/duet in 1993, scored a series of Top 10 country hits on Atlantic Records in the early '90s, including "Queen of Memphis," Jesus and Mama," Trashy Women" and "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind."
Nichols was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about a month ago. He spent his last days in the care of Hospice Tranquility in Austell, Ga. Confederate Railroad posted an announcement on the loss of their brother in music on their website.
“We are sorry to inform everyone that our dear friend and brother Gates Nichols passed away this morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family.”
Nichols, who grew up in Upstate NY and attended high school on Long Island’s east end played in many groups before finding a home in Confederate Railroad in 1991. He spent seventeen years on the steel pedal guitar with the band before retiring in 2008to concentrate on his family and his church.
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