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All posts filed under “RIP”
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Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy RIP
Thornton Spencer RIP
Thornton Spencer, Longtime fiddler for the Whitetop Mountain Band, has died. RIP
Frank George RIP
I’ve been listening to a CD by Franklin George for years, called Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle and Bagpipes. It’s an excellent recording. I heard yesterday he passed. I don’t know exactly how old he was – it would have to be in his late… Read More
Fats Domino RIP
Gentle on my Mind
Glen Campbell RIP
Howard Hodgkin RIP
The great British painter Howard Hodgkin passed on March 9 of this year, but I only found out about it last evening, which Tuffy P came across something on the internet. He was 84. Mr. Hodgkin made deceptively simple, powerful abstract paintings. In some of… Read More
No Particular Place to Go – a few thoughts on Chuck Berry, Rock ‘n’ Roll and growing up.
Ridin’ along in my automobile My baby beside me at the wheel. The lyrics are all rock ‘n’roll, but you didn’t have to wait for the lyrics. By the start of the second bar you know it’s Chuck Berry. It’s like that with all his… Read More
James Cotton RIP
Here at home we have a photo by the great Memphis photographer Ernest Withers of the Howlin Wolf Band pretending to pick cotton in Arkansas. There’s a young James Cotton in that photo sporting a big grin. RIP
