It’s old news to the hip; Lee Hazlewood is dead. He was 78, from Oklahoma; like Woody Guthrie, a hilarious fatalist; like all Oklahoma people, had one of those voices you hear once and can’t never forget; like Paul Robeson and had a preference for epically scoped 30 minutes LPs; like Scott Walker.
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read the complete articleIn case you didn’t hear: Syd Barrett died today. He was now 60. In case you were unaware: Syd Barrett founded Pink Floyd. He was then 20. Personally, I think he managed his strangest and most delightful work after leaving Pink Floyd.
I’m not going to try writing some big biographical obituary of the man. I […]
read the complete articleNikki Sudden died in his sleep yesterday (3/26), a little less than a decade after his brother, Epic Soundtracks.
As well as being the rad human being illustrated by the linked article, Nikki headed the Swell Maps & later, the more ruminative Jacobites. He had a bunch of solo albums under his belt, too. Try the […]