Somewhere in New Jersey, there’s a hospital worker Tom Gillam wants to meet, because he owes this person his life. It was March 2006 and Gillam had just had his third heart attack. This one was so serious, it looked […]
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Nearly every book-length country history or biography of any Grand Ole Opry-related performer includes obligatory background about WSM and the Opry’s history, usually recounting the Saturday night when George D. Hay spontaneously christened the station’s popular weekly old time music […]
Bobby Byrd’s contribution to James Brown’s music might seem no more significant than that of many other storied Brown collaborators. Brown, a mesmeric musician whose vision was dependent upon arrangers and instrumentalists — many of them, such as Fred Wesley, […]
I first met Hilly Kristal in the summer of 1974, when the Ramones made their debut at his club, CBGB. At the time he was quite an imposing figure — tall, brawny, and dressed like a lumberjack — and I […]
Janis Martin, the rockabilly artist once billed as “The Female Elvis,” passed away peacefully after a short battle with an aggressive cancer on September 3 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She was 67. Janis began performing […]
Former Emerson Drive bassist and singer Patrick Borque died September 25 in Montreal, Quebec, of undisclosed causes. He was 29, and had left the band in August.
Bluegrass and gospel guitarist Larry Fuller perished when his tour bus caught fire in his Richmond, Kentucky, driveway on September 22. He recorded 21 albums, most recently as the leader of the Larry Fuller Band. Fuller was 58.
Blues harmonica player Gary Primich died of unknown causes September 23 in Austin, Texas. He released eight albums for labels including Flying Fish and Antone’s as a solo artist, and formed the Mannish Boys with former Frank Zappa drummer Jimmy […]
Gordon A. “Specs” Powell died September 15 of complications from kidney disease. As a pianist and drummer, he recorded with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. He was 85.
Outlaws founding guitarist Hughie (Hugh Howard) Thomasson died of a heart attack in his sleep September 12. Thomasson toured with the reconstituted Lynyrd Skynyrd for nine years before reassembling the Outlaws. He finished an album titled Once An Outlaw that […]
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