Didn't Wake Up This Morning...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Henry Gray QO! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/24/henry-gray-obituary

100:1 Joey wrote/texted them numerous times ‘just print the goddamn thing so that Okie leaves us alone!’

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Big George Brock, who worked with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King is dead at 88

[Sir Creep 7,070]

4 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Big George Brock, who worked with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King is dead at 88

St Louis Blues legend?  I didn’t even know he could skate.

[HDS 235]

On 10/04/2020 at 11:22, Joey Russ said:

Big George Brock, who worked with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King is dead at 88

Met him at a festival 7-8 years ago. A good show, but his mind and/or his hearing clearly went long before he did.

[HDS 235]

20 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

St Louis Blues legend?  I didn’t even know he could skate.

He was only there to goon for Brett Hull.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, HDS said:

He was only there to goon for Brett Hull.

And just like that we are best mates on Deathlist.  Cheers, my friend.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

American blues legend Lucky Peterson has died. He was 55.

 

https://www.rockandbluesmuse.com/2020/05/17/american-blues-legend-lucky-peterson-dies-at-55/

 

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Salome Bey, Canada's First Lady of Blues, has died. She was 86. Bey had long been struggling with Alzheimer's.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/salome-bey-obit-1.5680432

 

 

(Trivia: Bey is the first person to have a line - shared or solo - as part of the Northern Lights song 'Tears Are Not Enough', Canada's contribution to Ethiopian relief back in 1985, who has now died. Up until now, only chorus member Oscar Peterson and John Candy had passed. The song included the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bryan Adams and many others.)

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Muddy Waters’ son Joseph ‘Mojo’ Morganfield has died  after collapsing at his home in Waukegan, Illinois. He was 56 years old.

In recent weeks Morganfield was recording with his band The Mannish Boyz and was planning an album for 2021. The record was bring produced by Grammy Award winning Michael Freeman who won Best Traditional Blues Album in 2010 for ‘Joined At the Hip’

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Well regarded blues hero James Harman is battling stage 4 esophageal cancer. 

[Phantom 2,533]

Guitarist Denny Freeman has passed away at the age of 76.

Denny, although essentially a guitarist, is also a keyboardist and has backed up Taj Mahal, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan and several others.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

2 hours ago, Phantom said:

Guitarist Denny Freeman has passed away at the age of 76.

Denny, although essentially a guitarist, is also a keyboardist and has backed up Taj Mahal, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan and several others.

Denny Freeman, the Graceful Guitarist Who Made Everyone Sound Better, Has Died: Masterful player had a foundational presence on Austin music - Music - The Austin Chronicle

[Phantom 2,533]

On 01/01/2021 at 15:07, Joey Russ said:

Well regarded blues hero James Harman is battling stage 4 esophageal cancer. 

Lost his battle yesterday

James Harman
June 8th, 1946 - May 23, 2021

[gcreptile 10,972]

On 24/05/2021 at 14:06, Phantom said:

Lost his battle yesterday

James Harman
June 8th, 1946 - May 23, 2021

James Harman gets a Guardian obit:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/25/james-harman-obituary

 

Reminds me of the late, surprising Guardian obit for Henry Gray last year. Someone at the Guardian is a Blues enthusiast.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Singer, songwriter and slide guitarist, the blues musician Ellen McIlwaine has died at 75:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/singer-writer-slide-guitarist-ellen-mcilwaine-dies/

[Phantom 2,533]

Guitarist Roy Gaines passed away on August 13th at the age of 87

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

1 hour ago, Phantom said:

Guitarist Roy Gaines passed away on August 13th at the age of 87

 

That's a bot generated site. Here's a link from AmericanBluesScene.com for confirmation.

According to FB posts, he died on the morning of the day before his birthday (12th) so must've died on 11th.

His year of birth varies online (1934 or 1937) but the birth records confirm he was born 1937, so he was 83:
 

Name	Roy James Gaines III
Birth	Aug 1937
Residence	1976-2020 Los Angeles, California, USA

Worth noting that his brother was blues saxophonist Grady Gaines (wiki), who died in January aged 86.

Here's a pic of Roy and Grady, with blues guitarist Clarence Holliman (1937–2000):



The other three names credited on the sleeve are all deceased: Joe Medwick (1931–1992), Teddy Reynolds (1931–1998) and Big Robert Smith (1939–2006).

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Lafayette and Acadiana are mourning the loss of a homegrown blues and soul music legend.

Carol Fran died Wednesday. She was 87. According to Downbeat Magazine, who interviewed Fran last month about the cancellation of Jazz Fest, Fran had recently battled COVID-19. An official cause of death has not been announced.

SC

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

Byther Smith (wiki), American blues vocalist and guitarist who collaborated with the likes of Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf, dead at 89.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 24/05/2021 at 08:06, Phantom said:

Lost his battle yesterday

James Harman
June 8th, 1946 - May 23, 2021

 

HOLD ON.  So I just caught up with this -- @Phantom you were wrong, he didn't lose his battle with cancer.  His obit says he died of a heart attack and oddly never mentions cancer in it at all....made me wonder a bit if there were two blues legends from California named James Hardan LOL (seriously).

SC

[Phantom 2,533]

11 minutes ago, Sir Cunto said:

 

HOLD ON.  So I just caught up with this -- @Phantom you were wrong, he didn't lose his battle with cancer.  His obit says he died of a heart attack and oddly never mentions cancer in it at all....made me wonder a bit if there were two blues legends from California named James Hardan LOL (seriously).

SC

I was relaying information from those that have performed with him

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

[YoungWillz 21,047]

Blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson being reported dead aged 93: 

Definitely not the Jimmy Johnson in the DDP this year.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

36 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson being reported dead aged 93: 

Definitely not the Jimmy Johnson in the DDP this year.

But he is the third music-related Jimmy Johnson to die in the past three years. Jimmy Johnson the top session musician and member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Jimmy Johnson the Styx guitar tech both passed in 2019, as noted elsewhere in the Deathlist.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Syl Johnson, a noted American blues and soul singer who had a series of minor hits on the Billboard Hot 100 from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. Johnson was the younger brother of Jimmy Johnson, who died just days ago and whose Deathlist entry is just above.

 

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2022/02/06/chicago-blues-soul-legend-syl-johnson-dies-at-85/