deadsox 894 Posted June 4, 2016 Pete Zorn, a different person to Pete Yorn, dead at 65, So he was a musician w Richard Thompson, which pulls this into Fairport Convention discussions we've had in a couple threads. Look for another FC hit this year. It's symbiotic. SC I wouldn't be too surprised if the Swarb were to go this year. I'm really going to have to stop doing this about people I like. But will you continue to do it about people you don't like? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted August 12, 2016 Glenn Yarbrough dies at 86: http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/12/singer-glenn-yarbrough-dead-86/88599116/?hootPostID=5cd2a29aa6796f3479d8552be66efa9b Baby The Rain Must Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBfIaFr2Jfg 2 DDP teams await a qo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted August 13, 2016 Glenn Yarbrough dies at 86: http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/12/singer-glenn-yarbrough-dead-86/88599116/?hootPostID=5cd2a29aa6796f3479d8552be66efa9b Baby The Rain Must Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBfIaFr2Jfg 2 DDP teams await a qo. Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3738340/Limeliters-folk-singer-Glenn-Yarbrough-dies-86.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted September 2, 2016 Fred Hellerman, last original member of The Weavers, dead at 89. http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Fred-Hellerman-89-the-last-of-the-Weavers-9199699.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted September 20, 2016 Dick Gaughan, Scottish folk singer, isn't sure but thinks he has had a stroke. http://www.thenational.scot/news/fans-rally-round-after-illness-hits-folk-icon-dick-gaughan.22613 His agent says that they don't know exactly what, but something isn't right. Please donate to his crowdfunding page. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted September 26, 2016 So I wondered what the .... is going on with Bruce Langhorne: http://acousticguitar.com/studio-guitar-legend-bruce-langhorne-is-the-real-mr-tambourine-man/ He is "too ill to walk along the beach", can't play guitar since his stroke in 2006, and gives an interview via telephone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weebl 216 Posted October 1, 2016 Canadian-American folk singer and radio broadcaster Oscar Brand dies aged 96 (and a hit for my own list): https://www.wnyc.org/story/70-years-oscar-brands-folksong-festival/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 22, 2017 I don't mind folk music, it's fine by me in smaller doses. But I could name all the folk bands I know on one hand. The Roches was one of them....a friend turned me into them about 1991. So this sucks. RIP Maggie Roche, the folk-rock singer-songwriter who since the mid-1970s had performed and recorded as a trio and in pairs with her two sisters, has died. Roche died of cancer, according to a statement posted online Saturday by her sister and bandmate Suzzy Roche. She was 65. SC http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2017/01/maggie_roche_nj_folk-rock_songwriter_dies_at_65.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted February 14, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted February 15, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338 I'd expect a Guardian obit at least... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted February 15, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338 I'd expect a Guardian obit at least... Possibly a Last Word entrant but more importantly a unique for me on the DDP. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted February 15, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338 I'd expect a Guardian obit at least... Possibly a Last Word entrant but more importantly a unique for me on the DDP. Aha, so it is that Tony Davis! I'll add him to the round up... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted February 15, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338 I'd expect a Guardian obit at least... Possibly a Last Word entrant but more importantly a unique for me on the DDP. Aye, despite the BBC's long-time loyalty to his band in the seventies I reckon he'll be overlooked. Genial enough lot but the question is whether they contributed much of lasting value. Oddly, if he'd been a Detroit Spinner... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted February 15, 2017 Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241 Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band) Dirty Old Town: Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else. It is... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted February 21, 2017 On 2/15/2017 at 6:59 PM, YoungWillz said: Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338 I'd expect a Guardian obit at least... Guardian Obit as expected: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/21/tony-davis-obituary 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted February 21, 2017 3 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Guardian Obit as expected: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/21/tony-davis-obituary Good old Guardian. What would we do without it? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted April 14, 2017 Word on Twitter that Bruce Langhorne has died. https://twitter.com/ScissorTailRecs/status/852990953120034816 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted April 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Word on Twitter that Bruce Langhorne has died. https://twitter.com/ScissorTailRecs/status/852990953120034816 If he gets the obit, this will finally bring some change to the top of the DDP scoreboard. Poochie moves to joint 6th, and Drunkasaskunk will be 5th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted April 14, 2017 12 minutes ago, RadGuy said: If he gets the obit, this will finally bring some change to the top of the DDP scoreboard. Poochie moves to joint 6th, and Drunkasaskunk will be 5th. Nothing as yet but this is good enough for the Hare's Pool. http://www.factmag.com/2017/04/14/bruce-langhorne-mr-tambourine-man-died/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted April 16, 2017 Surely, a Guardian obit will appear post-Easter? For some reason, I thought he had cancer. But Wikipedia has him dying from stroke complications. He survived rather long in hospice, far longer than the 6 months imlied by hospice admission laws. Though at some point, I read that it was not a hospice but "merely" a care home. I might be reading it all wrong though. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted April 16, 2017 Langhorne's Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/04/16/bruce-langhorne-original-mr-tambourine-man-obituary/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,963 Posted April 16, 2017 Even if he outlived DDP usefulness for me, (that he lived so long after entering hospice was definitely one of my worst bits of DDP luck, bar the Martin Crowe thing) Langhorne still is one of my personal fav selections from my DDP history. The mix of being an interesting character (tidbits like losing several fingers when a school rocket project went awry) and the cool feeling of landing a name DDT mentioned years ago through your own research. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted April 16, 2017 In other news The Guardian finally caught up with Tony Davis of The Spinners yesterday; near enough two months after he left the planet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,035 Posted April 17, 2017 On 2/21/2017 at 13:15, YoungWillz said: Guardian Obit as expected: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/21/tony-davis-obituary 7 hours ago, maryportfuncity said: In other news The Guardian finally caught up with Tony Davis of The Spinners yesterday; near enough two months after he left the planet. Hmm, they printed his obituary in February? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted April 17, 2017 49 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Hmm, they printed his obituary in February? No shit - it was there last Saturday as well. Can't account for that. I mean, we're not that short of obitable death are we? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites