Chicago blues harmonica (and bass) player CAREY BELL HARRINGTON died of heart failure May 6. He played with Muddy Waters, Honeyboy Edwards, and Willie Dixon, and recorded on his own. He was 70.
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I knew Joe Boyd was a cool, well-connected music biz guy when we met in 1980. He brought Lorne Michaels (the producer and creator of Saturday Night Live) and Paul Simon backstage in New York to meet the band I […]
Anyone who has met Peter Case may be familiar with at least one of the tales he tells in the first installment of his heartbreakingly beautiful memoir, As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport. But, as John Doe […]
Just last week, a press release for Michelle Shocked’s upcoming disc arrived citing Sister Rosetta Tharpe as one of Shocked’s greatest influences, calling her “the father — well, mother — of rockabilly.” Share that statement with the general public, and […]
Jimmy Reed was a musical anomaly. His skills on guitar and harmonica were rudimentary, but the commercial success of his singles exceeded those of fellow blues singers Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Reed was barely literate yet his songs would […]
CASE BRIEFING: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, due out August 7 on Yep Roc Records, is PETER CASE’s first release since 2002, when both the big-production Beeline and the duo-driven Thank You, St. Jude (with violinist David Perales) hit. […]
The influential co-founder of KPIG and Americana radio pioneer LAURA ELLEN HOPPER died of complications from lung cancer on May 28. She was 57.
JAMES WALLACE LEWIS of the Lewis Brothers and Lewis Family gospel bluegrass bands died May 26 in Washington, Georgia. He was 78.
TOPPER (TERRY O’NEIL) PRICE died May 16 in Birmingham, Alabama. He worked as a singer and harmonica player with Gregg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Delbert McClinton, and the Subdudes. He was 54.
Moonshine Willy’s original guitarist, NANCY TANNENBAUM (stage name, Nancy Rideout) was killed in a motorcycle accident in New York City on May 13. She apparently swerved to avoid a pedestrian and was thrown from her bike. She was 47.
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