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Sherley rose for a bit after leaving prison in 1971. However, a life-long criminal, he stumbled back into old habits of drink and drugs. In May 1978, for no reason, he shot and killed a black man named Vernon (unknown last name) while he was high on drugs. Sherley realized that he was finished - that he was going to go to prison for the rest of his life. He called his daughter and told her, "I am not going back to prison." Two days after the shooting, on May 11, 1978, Sherley took his own life by shooting himself in the head near his brother's house in California. Sherley was 42 years old. He was buried in Salinas, California.
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Singer-guitarist-songwriter Glen Sherley was one of the great success stories, and one of the most tragic figures in country music of the 1970s, with a career that lasted less than a decade. A convict at Vacaville, CA and formerly a resident of criminal justice institutions in Chino, Solidad, San Quentin, and Folsom, Sherley began writing songs in the 1960s and sent a tape of one of them to Johnny Cash. It was while incarcerated at Folsom that Sherley saw Cash perform "Greystone Chapel," and that heralded his career as a songwriter. His next big step came when Eddy Arnold recorded a Sherley song, "Portrait Of My Woman," which became a single and the title track of Arnold's next album. This led to a live recording of Glen Shirley, done in cooperation with the California prison authorities on Jan. 31, 1971, which was released by Mega Records. The album was successful enough to get Sherley a contract with House of Cash, Johnny Cash's publishing organization, as a songwriter. He also made it into the movie Flower Out of Place, a documentary about performances at Tennessee State Prison, performing with Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, and Roy Clark. Sherley's final years in the late '70s were marked by obscurity and confusion along with estrangement from his family. He took his life in the spring of 1978. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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