Built To Spill drummer ANDY CAPPS died in Idaho May 18.
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When Tab Benoit discarded the piloting education his parents had financed, he wanted to reassure them he was a young man with artistic conviction and a good head on his shoulders. That was 1989, and he was 20. “They weren’t […]
Friday night during South By Southwest was what you’d expect from a music industry showdown slammed alongside St. Patrick’s Day weekend and college spring break: bands slugging it out in clubs, tourists trailing into the streets, boozehound frat types prowling […]
This homage to Bill Monroe’s life and career, originally published in the fall of 2000, is now available in paperback. The wide-ranging collection of 65 writings spanning the years 1937-1998 includes early promotional literature from WSM and the Grand Ole […]
On the live performance that makes Merle Haggard’s 1970 Fightin’ Side Of Me album, he introduces then-wife and harmony singer Bonnie Owens. She momentarily fumbles the lyrics of Woody Guthrie’s “Philadelphia Lawyer”, but recovers beautifully at the end. Haggard, seeing […]
On May 6, Grant McLennan, age 48, died in his sleep of apparent heart failure. McLennan grew up and lived most all his life in Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city, on the tropical northwestern coast. In the late ’70s he […]
Southern music lost a legendary figure with the passing of Phil Walden in Atlanta on April 23. After a long bout with cancer, the Capricorn Records founder, who discovered such icons as Otis Redding and Duane Allman, died at his […]
Reggae pioneer DESMOND DEKKER (born Desmond Adolphus Dacres) died May 25 in London, England, of an apparent heart attack. He was 64. Dekker and his band the Aces were best-known for the 1969 hit “Israelites” — one of the first […]
Entrepreneur IAN COPELAND died May 23 in Los Angeles, California. He was 57. Brother to drummer Stewart Copeland and IRS Records founder Miles Copeland, Ian managed the Police, R.E.M., the Dead Kennedys and many others. As a booking agent, he […]
Country singer BILLY WALKER died in an automobile accident on I-65 south of Montgomery, Alabama, on May 21. He was 77. Also killed in the wreck were his wife Bettie and band members CHARLES LILLY and DANNY PATTON. “Pick Me […]
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