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Clyde Stubblefield, ‘Funky Drummer,’ Dead at 73
Clyde Stubblefield, the drummer who provided the backbeat for a generation, died Saturday at the age of 73. As the drummer for James Brown's band, Stubblefield laid the groundwork for funk and inadvertently created the most sampled track of…
Butch Trucks, Founding Member of the Allman Brothers Band, Dead at 69
Butch Trucks, founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, died on the evening of Tuesday, January 24 in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 69 years old.
Born Claude Hudson Trucks on May 11, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida, Butch refined his…
George Michael, Pop Icon, Dead at 53
The year 2016 has been a particularly rough one in many respects. The music world has lost legends such as David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell. On Christmas Day, pop icon George Michael was found in his bed, a victim of…
Greg Lake, Prog Pioneer, Dies at 69
Greg Lake, founder of progressive rock pioneers King Crimson and founding member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer has died at the age of 69.
Lake, a founding member of both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, was one of the progenitors…
‘Deep Listening’ Pioneer and Experimental Music Composer Pauline Oliveros Passes Away at…
Pauline Oliveros, experimental composer, electronic music innovator, accordionist, pioneer of the Deep Listening philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, passed away Thanksgiving Day at…
Leon Russell, ‘Master of Space and Time,’ Dies at 74
Leon Russell, the long-haired, top-hatted, mystical Oklahoman who rose to fame as the bandleader for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen touring band, died quietly in his sleep Sunday. He was 74. His wife, Jan Bridges released the…
Influential Poet, Musician, Leonard Cohen Dead at 82
"If someone could guarantee me that the preliminaries will not be too disagreeable, I look forward to..." This was Leonard Cohen's response to a question asked of him in a 2009 interview with the CBC's Jian Ghomeshi. What he was looking…
Bernie Worrell Passes Away at 72
Bernie Worrell, keyboardist for Parliament/Funkadelic and the Talking Heads, passed away yesterday at the age of 72.
In a post on Facebook, Worrell's wife, Judie, posted "Bernie transitioned Home to The Great Spirit. Rest in peace, my…
Bluegrass Legend, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Dies at the Age of 89
Bluegrass singer and legend, Ralph Stanley, died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday at 89 years old, after a long battle with skin cancer. Stanley is credited with being the patriarch of Bluegrass for boosting the genre throughout his…
