NIKKI SUDDEN, born Nicholas Godfrey, died March 26 in New York City. He was 49. Sudden first came to notice in the early 1980s band Swell Maps. He and brother Epic Soundtracks (who died in 1997) subsequently formed the Jacobites, […]
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Two days before his show in Austin at this year’s South By Southwest Festival, Mark Pickerel is sitting in the cozy, wood-lined confines of the Hunt Club at Seattle’s Sorrento Hotel, where artists from Julian Lennon to John Lydon have […]
Rocky Votolato was as surprised as anyone at what happened when his song “White Daisy Passing” was showcased on a recent episode of “The O.C.”, sandwiched between numbers from the similarly strummy and delicate Sufjan Stevens and Sun Kil Moon. […]
As is often the case with veteran R&B artists, details concerning Sugar Pie Desanto have been embellished over the years. For instance, although the Bay Area singer is petite — she stood 4-foot-11 and weighed 85 pounds at her first […]
When he passed away February 18 at age 58, William Joseph “Billy” Cowsill’s obituary writers boiled his life down to a single story. As a teen, he fronted the Cowsills, a family act that enjoyed a brief but memorable run […]
Finding reliable information about country music history was no easy task a few decades ago. Prior to Bill Malone’s landmark Country Music U.S.A., a hardy band of academics (D.K. Wilgus, Guy Logsdon, Archie Green) and collectors (Bob Pinson, Norm Cohen) […]
Texas guitarist JESSE TAYLOR succumbed March 7 to complications of Hepatitis C and cirrhosis. He was 55. Taylor played with everyone from Joe Ely to Joe Strummer to Kinky Friedman and was one of the guitarists to fill in for […]
The death of Malian guitarist ALI FARKA TOURE from bone cancer was announced March 7. He was 67. Toure won Grammys for his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, and his 2005 collaboration with Toumani Diabate, In The Heart […]
GENE PITNEY, who wrote Rick Nelson’s hit “Hello Mary Lou” and had more than a dozen top-40 singles himself during the 1960s, died April 5 while on tour in the U.K. He was 65.
Bernard Seigal, best known as BUDDY BLUE, died from a heart attack in La Mesa, California, April 2. He was 48. Blue was a founding member of the seminal San Diego alt-country band the Beat Farmers and played on their […]
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