Founding Dixie Chicks member killed in head-on car crash in Texas
nypost.combackin 1990. The Texan-born songstress recorded three albums with the band before leaving in 1993. Lynch originally played upright bass for the wildly popular country group, before providing lead vocals on their third album, “Shouldn’t a Told You That.”She was replaced by Natalie Maines in 1995.
Little is known about Lynch’s life and career following her departure from the band. In a 2003 news article, it was reported that Lynch was living in Mineral Wells, Texas.
She had one daughter, Asia, and was married to Mac Wells, who had won $26.8 million in a lottery during the early 1990s. Lynch purportedly spent her free time “learning to oil paint” and had no regrets about leaving the Dixie Chicks after suffering from exhaustion.
She also spoke fondly of her years with the group, declaring: “It was worth. I’d get anemic all over again to do it.”After Lynch’s departure from the band, the Dixie Chicks soared to international success with the release of their album “Wide Open Spaces” in 1998.
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