When we last commiserated on the Lounge, I was bemoaning the loss of longtime Motown Records songwriter and producer, Norman Whitfield, who died last month at the age of 68. My original plan was to pay homage to his legendary career. However, after a lengthy interior monologue I realized that without The Temptations there […]
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Man, the hits just keep on coming. Caught this headline on NOLA.com and had to do a double-take: New Orleans drum legend Earl Palmer dies in L.A. at 83 Not much to add right now, but I’d like to declare a six-month moratorium on anymore of my musical heroes dying. Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. […]
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I’ve been taking a short respite from the Lounge, but I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to post. A few days ago, in the wake of Hurricane Ike, a friend sent me an email saying that guitar playing phenom and Texas/Gulf Coast music encyclopedia, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, was discovered missing. What makes this story […]
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Sad news at The Adios Lounge. On August 31, we found out that the man born Jerry Reed Hubbard and known professionally as Jerry Reed died at the age of 71 due to complications from emphysema. Reed was also known as the Alabama Wild Man (from his 1968 LP), the Georgia Wild Man (born […]
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“To have been a Renaissance Hillbilly in Hollywood in the 1960s would have been great for me. I could have hung out with Leo Fender, Buck Owens and Don Rich, Moon (Ralph Mooney), Merle (Haggard) and Roy Nichols. Gone to check out Wynn Stewart recording at Capitol or witnessed Johnny Cash, Joe Maphis, and Merle […]
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