Just before we were scheduled to go to Alabama to meet our dad and take a plane with him to the Dallas New Year’s Eve concert, Gunnar said, “our dad called us.”
Regretfully, Ricky’s then-girlfriend Helen Blaine and he boarded a DC-3 jet that caught fire. The pilot managed to land the aircraft, but the passengers perished.
There were rumors that the fuel heater on the aircraft was malfunctioning. The actual cause of the catastrophe is yet unknown, however.
Prior to the fatal flight that took his life, Ricky had a gut sense that helped avert a far worse disaster.
His boys carry on their father’s heritage as independent artists today.
Matthew describes the project as “an ongoing labor of love, an open letter to our dad, who was our best friend.”
