Stephen Douglas Cash (May 5, 1946 – October 13, 2019) was an American musician, most notable as a founding and continual member of the rock band

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are an American rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri. They are most widely known for their singles " If You Wanna Get to Heaven" in 1974 and " Jackie Blue" in 1975. Bassist Michael "Supe" Granda has ...

Biography

Born in

Springfield, Missouri Springfield is the List of cities in Missouri, third most populous city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County, Missouri, Greene County. The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 censu ...

, Cash received his undergraduate education at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

, where he was a member of the

Zeta Phi The Zeta Phi Society () was a regional American Fraternities and sororities, fraternity founded in 1870 at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. It was the first independent fraternity to be established west of the Mississippi Riv ...

chapter of

Beta Theta Pi Beta Theta Pi (), commonly known as Beta, is a North American social Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. One of North America's oldest fraternities, , it consist ...

. He was a founding member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and, with the exception of a brief period away from the band in the early-1980s, remained an active member for over forty years. In later years, Cash became a published author with his ''Meq'' trilogy (''The Meq'', ''Time Dancers'' and ''The Remembering''). Cash died on October 13, 2019.

References

External links

The Meq on Amazon.com
1946 births 2019 deaths Writers from Springfield, Missouri University of Missouri alumni American Southern rock musicians Musicians from Springfield, Missouri American male novelists Novelists from Missouri 21st-century American novelists American male singer-songwriters 21st-century American male writers Singer-songwriters from Missouri {{Missouri-stub