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All posts filed under “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 https://youtu.be/7Bon3WIhDq4
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.
https://youtu.be/cpitvLeNjuE 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… 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. https://youtu.be/YAqTrbuxCRI RIP
Scrubby
At the end of 2015, I read many articles about all the music stars who passed in 2016. Today I’d like to salute one more performer who was very very well known within his own musical world, but his passing did not get a mention… Read More
Alan Jabbour RIP
Alan Jabbour was an extraordinary fiddler and ethno-musicologist. RIP
27th Street 