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The Singer-Songwriter Known as Sparklehorse is Dead

March 7, 2010

Mark Linkous, a singer-songwriter whose music, released under the name Sparklehorse, was renowned in the indie-rock and alt-country worlds for its dark, allusive themes and fragile beauty, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 47. He shot himself in the heart in an alley outside a friends home, said his manager, Shelby Meade. Lt. ...