With the deaths of musicians I’ve never heard of, I’ve taken some time to listen to their music and damn, some pure talent has been lost.
Ellis Marsalis:
Post some of the others and let’s take a listen…
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Adam Schlesinger from fountains of wayne passed away from it yesterday.
We lost Joe Diffie.
I am not much of a country fan, so I cannot offer a song.
We lost the guy who wrote I Love Rock and Roll performed by Joan Jett. I had to look up the name: Alan Merrill.
If you ever see Keith Richards on that list you know we are all goners!
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Keith Richards vs. Betty White in the end days. There can be only one!
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John Prine has passed from COVID-19.
The Stranglers lost their keyboardist - Dave Greenfield
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Less unfortunate, but still a music-related find : unearthed my well-preserved ~15 year old discman and it plays CDs with a fidelity that even high-bitrate MP3s can’t quite achieve.
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Oscar Chavez - Mexico’s protest singer whose songs often lampooned the corrupt political elite.
Not music, but he was an entertainer…
I’m a little torn on the Roy horn thing, on one hand it’s something I grew up seeing on tv and such. On the other hand the whole big cat industry has been shown to be super inhumane. I don’t actually know how much conservation vs exploitation they did.
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