Steel guitarist and bassist Wayne Fleming, best known for his work on Ernest Tubb’s early hits, died in Roanoke, Virginia, December 19 of Parkinson’s Disease. He was 86.
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The next time someone tries to tell you that the roots music mythos is ironclad, that for a person to be a credible part of some music with a thick history and true geography that they must, inevitably, be of […]
Folks out here on the west coast had known for a while that Sneaky Pete Kleinow was struggling with Alzheimer’s, so it wasn’t a complete shock when a friend called to let me know he had passed on. At first, […]
Del Reeves’ records never probed the human psyche or the nation’s social ills; lighthearted novelties were his primary stock in trade. When he died at his Centerville, Tennessee, home New Year’s Day after a long battle with, among other things, […]
Guitarist, painter, songwriter, and early Dylan influence Eric von Schmidt died February 2 at a convalescent home in Fairfield, Connecticut. He was 75.
FLIGHT OF MAVIS: On April 27, Anti- Records will release We’ll Never Turn Back, an album of updated freedom songs sung by MAVIS STAPLES, one of the most electrifying voices of the civil rights movement. The album, which features vocals […]
Steel guitar player Tom Morrell succumbed to emphysema in his Dallas home January 29. A onetime member of the Texas Playboys, he is best known for his 13-volume How The West Was Swung recordings with the Time Warp Tophands. He […]
Guitarist Gerry “Phareaux” Felton, a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, died January 21 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Albuquerque. He moved to Austin in the 1980s and was co-leader of roots-rockers the Commandos as well as an […]
Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the Mamas & the Papas, died January 19 in Mississaugua, Ontario. He was 66.
Doyle Holly (born Doyle Floyd Hendricks), who replaced Merle Haggard on bass in Buck Owens’ band, died of prostate cancer January 13 in Nashville. He was 70.
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