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Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Edwin Starr / Hank Ballard / Rusty Draper
Motown soul singerEdwin Starr, best-known for the 1970 chart-topping single “War”, died of a heart attack April 2 in England at his home near Nottingham. Starr, 61, was a native of Nashville, Tennessee.
Hank Ballard, best-known for writing the early rock ‘n’ roll smash “The Twist”, died March 2 after battling throat cancer. Ballard, 75, was [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Zal Yanovsky / Tommy Thompson / Frank Edmonson / Joel Svatek
Zal Yanovsky, a founding member of hitmaking 1960s folk-rock band the Lovin’ Spoonful, died December 13, 2002, in Kingston, Ontario, from heart problems. He was 57.
Tommy Thompson, a founding member of North Carolina string-band revivalists the Red Clay Ramblers, died January 24, 2003, after struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 65.
Frank Edmonson, a longtime road [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Laura Nyro / Mae Axton
Legendary songwriter LAURA NYRO, who made her mark in the 1960s with soulful pop songs that were made hits by such acts as Blood, Sweat & Tears and Three Dog Night, died April 8 of cancer at the age of 49. Shortly before her death, Columbia Legacy had released a two-disc, 34-track collection titled Stoned [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
June Carter Cash: 1929 to 2003
Remembering The Queen
I have a clear memory of sitting on my grandmother’s lap when I was five-years-old and listening to her beloved tube radio in the darkened back bedroom of the shotgun duplex that she and my grandfather rented on the corner of 67th Street and Navigation Boulevard in the hardscrabble section of Houston, known [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Charles Sawtelle / Buddy Knox
Charles Sawtelle, guitarist for the Boulder, Colorado, bluegrass band Hot Rize, died March 20 of complications from a bone marrow transplant following a battle with leukemia. He was 52. While occasionally joining Hot Rize for reunion concerts, he also performed with his band, Charles Sawtelle & the Whippets, ran a recording studio, and toured with [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Roebuck “Pops” Staples / Robert Buck / James Carr
Gospel/soul legend Roebuck “Pops” Staples, patriarch of the legendary family group the Staple Singers, died December 19 at age 84 while recovering from a concussion sustained in a fall. The Staples had #1 hits in the early-mid 1970s with “I’ll Take You There” (on Stax Records) and “Let’s Do It Again” (on Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Greg Leisz – By Products, When a producer isn’t exactly a producer
Editor’s note: A few months back, I made my first visit to New York’s modest, humble, yet quickly-becoming-famous Lakeside Lounge, a bar co-owned by Eric Ambel, who’s profiled elsewhere in this package of articles about producers. Ambel was gone that day, off in Chicago to play a gig with the Yayhoos at Schubas, but over [...]
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