Former Wilco Member Jay Bennett Died Of Painkiller Overdose

Musician's death is being investigated as an accident. By Eric Ditzian Jay Bennett with Wilco's Jeffy Tweedy Photo: Patrick Ford/ Redferns/ Getty Images Almost a month after former Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett was found dead in his home of undetermined causes, an Illinois coroner said the musician died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, according to media reports. Tests showed that Bennett died from fentanyl, a drug often prescribed to treat chronic pain. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Champaign County coroner's office is investigating the death as an accident. A month before his death, Bennett, 45, wrote a post on his MySpace page describing the debilitating pain he continued to suffer from a hip injury sustained while performing. "A decade-plus of multiple nightly stage jumps and various other rock'n'roll theatrics had finally taken a toll that I could no longer deal with," he wrote. The Tribune reports that, PriCara, a division of ... (link)