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Jay Bennett, former Wilco member, died of an accidental painkiller overdose, according to the Champaign County coroner's office. Bennett, who died May 24 at his home in Urbana, IL, was found to have lethal amounts of the painkiller fentanyl in his system, according to Chicago Tribune report.

A few weeks before his death, Bennett posted a comment on his MySpace page saying that he would need hip-replacement surgery. "A decade plus of multiple nightly stage jumps and various other rock and roll theatrics had finally taken a toll that I could no longer merely deal with or ignore," he wrote. Then he added that he did not have health insurance to cover the cost of the surgery.

Bennett was a member of Wilco from 1994 to 2001. In early May, he sued Wilco founder Jeff Tweedy, claiming that he was owed royalties.


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