Unfortunate COVID-19 music finds

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQSIxBjbgA

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8285541/The-Stranglers-keyboard-player-Dave-Greenfield-dies-71-testing-positive-coronavirus.html?ito=facebook_share_article-facebook_preferred-top&fbclid=IwAR2slVgCzDvN9OEHEhruR3WvoRXkDP7X7phNjah6va54OC7PGj712lIWZCY

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/arts/music/alan-merrill-dead-coronavirus.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1tozmIeOGPYJ_4tLCwb73anU3AYKT3TGnb3gICbu5QXSs4xoo1QsCHLak

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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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