Called Home
Published: December 31, 2015
As you may know, every December I try to write something up as a sort of tribute to those who have gone on before us in the preceding year... it is a grim task that has seemed to grow more difficult as time marches on.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pu-cC20Qf9Y/VoFGpgmM4JI/AAAAAAAAKEk/hBmtDFf3JTI/s1600/toussaintcvr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pu-cC20Qf9Y/VoFGpgmM4JI/AAAAAAAAKEk/hBmtDFf3JTI/s400/toussaintcvr.jpg"></a></div><br />The sudden passing of <a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/11/allen-toussaint-1938-2015.html" target="_blank">Allen Toussaint</a> in November took us all by surprise, and broke the heart of the Crescent City. As New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at Allen's Memorial Service, <i>"He was as much of a New Orleans icon as St. Louis Cathedral or The Superdome,"</i> and now, in an instant, he was gone. One of the very few people who deserved to be called a musical genius, I don't think we'll see the likes of him again in our lifetime.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQs85nRuu1s/VoFNMXEc7DI/AAAAAAAAKE0/tC6Qz-M2wb8/s1600/Skip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQs85nRuu1s/VoFNMXEc7DI/AAAAAAAAKE0/tC6Qz-M2wb8/s200/Skip.jpg"></a></div>New Orleans seemed to have been hit particularly hard in 2015, with the loss of people like <a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/06/patience-valentine-woman-in-mans-world.html" target="_blank">Harold Battiste</a>, <a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/01/wild-magnolias-big-chief-like-plenty-of.html" target="_blank">Big Chief Bo Dollis</a>, Smokey Johnson, Frankie Ford, Trumpet Black, Charles Otis, Irving Smith and, on November 21st, blue-eyed soul brother <a href="https://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?pid=176619786" target="_blank">Skip Easterling.</a> Skip had come up across the lake in Slidell singing with <a href="https://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/L/eddie_lang/index.php" target="_blank">Eddie Lang</a> and, after a couple of singles on Reno and Ron that went nowhere, was signed by Joe Banashak in 1963 and handed off to Toussaint for his new ALON label.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T7UDRJ_L-Qo/VoFSThmnagI/AAAAAAAAKFE/FFqqNDJe7_g/s1600/alon9012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T7UDRJ_L-Qo/VoFSThmnagI/AAAAAAAAKFE/FFqqNDJe7_g/s200/alon9012.jpg"></a></div><iframe src="https://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P695ee7a3b2ccc90308c2376d30be204dZ1x4R1REa2F8&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=FF0000&kc=FFCC33&bc=66FF66&brand=1&player=ap24" height="20" width="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><a rel="enclosure" href="https://www.hipcast.com/export/P695ee7a3b2ccc90308c2376d30be204dZ1x4R1REa2F8.mp3">Don't Let Him (Come Between Us)</a><br /><br />Although Easterling is remembered mostly for the records he cut later on with Eddie Bo and Huey Smith, this little known Toussaint composition (almost certainly cut while he was home on leave during his stint in the Army) provides us with a glimpse of the under-appreciated work he was doing at <a href="https://cosimocode.com/1963.html" target="_blank">Cosimo Recording</a> during that period.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sS3qFnBwgSg/VoKhigiq3hI/AAAAAAAAKGA/ZvOgfVnZ1NU/s1600/wayne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sS3qFnBwgSg/VoKhigiq3hI/AAAAAAAAKGA/ZvOgfVnZ1NU/s200/wayne.jpg"></a></div><a href="https://www.waynecarsonmusic.com/" target="_blank">Wayne Carson</a>, who had penned songs like <b>The Letter</b> and <b>Soul Deep</b> for The Box Tops, and <b>Nine Pound Steel</b> for Joe Simon (along with Dan Penn, who said they came up with about <i>"...a pound a day."</i>), while at American Sound in Memphis, said he wrote his most enduring composition <i>"in ten minutes sitting at my kitchen table"</i>. In late 1971, Chips Moman told him he had to come up with a 'bridge' for the song before he would record it on him. Staff songwriters Mark James and Johnny Christopher sat down with Wayne upstairs in Chips' office and hammered one out on an old upright piano. Moman approved. According to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memphis-Boys-Story-American-Studios/dp/1617031992/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451424459&sr=1-1&keywords=memphis+boys" target="_blank">Roben Jones</a>, he liked the results so much that he flew Carson personally to Nashville to shop the tapes to Fred Foster at Monument, who told them <i>"I don't think the world is ready for it."</i><br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VxrqNkq72r8/VoKVLfUiUsI/AAAAAAAAKFw/XA16ajz_xqY/s1600/columbia02741.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VxrqNkq72r8/VoKVLfUiUsI/AAAAAAAAKFw/XA16ajz_xqY/s200/columbia02741.jpg"></a></div><iframe src="https://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P3cf2d224af6d7ffdad4583b6038de6f7Z1x4R1REa2B1&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=FF0000&kc=FFCC33&bc=66FF66&brand=1&player=ap24" height="20" width="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><a rel="enclosure" href="https://www.hipcast.com/export/P3cf2d224af6d7ffdad4583b6038de6f7Z1x4R1REa2B1.mp3">Always On My Mind</a><br /><br />He may have been right... but Chips never gave up on the song. Ten years later (when he was producing <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Merle-Haggard-and-Willie-Nelson-Poncho-Lefty/release/1539065" target="_blank">Poncho and Lefty</a> on Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson), he and <a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/02/bobby-emmons-blue-organ-hi-2090.html" target="_blank">Bobby Emmons</a> offered the song to Merle who declined to cut it for the album. Willie, however, said it <i>"bowled me over the moment I first heard it."</i> An absolute masterpiece, Moman's towering 1982 Memphis Boys production of it on Nelson will, in my humble opinion, live on forever... Bobby Emmons left us on February 23rd, Wayne Carson on July 20th.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kwdIQv2k3g8/VoFdS2xiQLI/AAAAAAAAKFU/QLu6eYpwkPM/s1600/atlantic2530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kwdIQv2k3g8/VoFdS2xiQLI/AAAAAAAAKFU/QLu6eYpwkPM/s200/atlantic2530.jpg"></a></div><iframe src="https://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P95d2065f1cb5fdf76ff01198263b4772Z1x4R1REa2F9&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=FF0000&kc=FFCC33&bc=66FF66&brand=1&player=ap24" height="20" width="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><a rel="enclosure" href="https://www.hipcast.com/export/P95d2065f1cb5fdf76ff01198263b4772Z1x4R1REa2F9.mp3">Soul Meeting</a><br /><br />The passing of <a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/02/don-covay-goodtimers-its-in-wind.html" target="_blank">Don Covay</a> in February, followed by <a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/05/ben-e-king-its-all-over-atco-6315.html" target="_blank">Ben E. King</a> in April, brought the entire Soul Clan back together one more time (well, actually, they never really <i>were</i> together when they cut their lone Atlantic single in 1968, recording their vocals at different times whenever their schedule permitted). Don Covay was the prime mover and shaker behind the whole super-group idea and, as <a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2007/04/don-covay-goodtimers-temptation-was-too.html" target="_blank">we've seen in the past</a>, wanted King in the Clan from day one. After recruiting Bobby Womack to play guitar, he produced this funky artifact of Soul from a time and place that will never come again.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Io9K5u_blII/VoFhjLjs4tI/AAAAAAAAKFg/KJYT9psNOZQ/s1600/atlantic2490.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Io9K5u_blII/VoFhjLjs4tI/AAAAAAAAKFg/KJYT9psNOZQ/s200/atlantic2490.jpg"></a></div><iframe src="https://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=Pc65d5e362b1b0599dcbdc41434452f46Z1x4R1REa2Fy&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=FF0000&kc=FFCC33&bc=66FF66&brand=1&player=ap24" height="20" width="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><a rel="enclosure" href="https://www.hipcast.com/export/Pc65d5e362b1b0599dcbdc41434452f46Z1x4R1REa2Fy.mp3">It's All Wrong But It's Alright</a><br /><br />Speaking of Atlantic, when <a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/04/percy-sledge-true-love-travels-on.html" target="_blank">Percy Sledge</a> died in April, it really hit home. He was, to my generation, our first introduction to Southern Soul. If you are of a certain age you know what I mean... I still get all emotionally involved whenever I hear <a href="https://youtu.be/7lp7FtJXp7k">When A Man Loves A Woman</a>, and I know I always will. This phenomenal B Side, written by <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marlin+Greene/+wiki" target="_blank">Marlin Greene</a> and <a href="https://swampland.com/articles/view/title:remembering_eddie_hinton" target="_blank">Eddie Hinton</a> (neither one of whom gets a mention in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_Shoals_(film)" target="_blank">Muscle Shoals</a> movie), has the same effect on me. Percy had that power... <i>"It's your love that's keeping me alive..."</i><br /><br /> Soul Deep.<br /><br /> Please join me in saying goodbye to all those who have gone on before us in 2015:<br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/05/bb-king-i-cant-lose-kent-393.html" target="_blank"><b>B.B. KING</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/11/allen-toussaint-1938-2015.html" target="_blank"><b>ALLEN TOUSSAINT</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/04/percy-sledge-true-love-travels-on.html" target="_blank"><b>PERCY SLEDGE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/02/don-covay-goodtimers-its-in-wind.html" target="_blank"><b>DON COVAY</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/05/ben-e-king-its-all-over-atco-6315.html" target="_blank"><b>BEN E. KING</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nataliecole.com/" target="_blank"><b>NATALIE COLE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/marionjames" target="_blank"><b>MARION JAMES</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly.blogspot.com/2015/06/mighty-sam-silent-tears-amy-990.html" target="_blank"><b>MIGHTY SAM McCLAIN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/06/patience-valentine-woman-in-mans-world.html" target="_blank"><b>HAROLD BATTISTE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/music/ornette-coleman-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-85-obituary.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><b>ORNETTE COLEMAN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2015/09/29/frankie-ford-dies-sea-cruise-singer-dead-new-orleans-dynamo/" target="_blank"><b>FRANKIE FORD</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.offbeat.com/news/new-orleans-drummer-smokey-johnson-dies/#.VhSgNemrx-Y.facebook" target="_blank"><b>SMOKEY JOHNSON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/05/travis_trumpet_black_hill_risi.html" target="_blank"><b>TRUMPET BLACK</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?pid=176619786" target="_blank"><b>SKIP EASTERLING</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tharpsontheimerfh.com/obituaries/Irvin-Samuel-Smith-5682435143/#%21/Obituary" target="_blank"><b>IRVING SMITH</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1283377-Charles-Otis" target="_blank"><b>CHARLES 'HONEYMAN' OTIS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/2015/07/07/friends-fans-recall-rb-legend-lil-bob/29836783/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=" target="_blank"><b>LITTLE BOB</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/17/funeral-services-set-drummer-jockey-etienne/31874815/" target="_blank"><b>JOCKEY ETIENNE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wsmv.com/story/30202602/singer-billy-joe-royal-dies-at-73" target="_blank"><b>BILLY JOE ROYAL</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2015/02/bobby-emmons-blue-organ-hi-2090.html" target="_blank"><b>BOBBY EMMONS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/wayne-carson-songwriter-who-penned-the-ballad-always-on-my-mind-dies-at-72/2015/07/27/f29acbe2-346c-11e5-adf6-7227f3b7b338_story.html" target="_blank"><b>WAYNE CARSON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/arts/music/buddy-emmons-virtuoso-of-the-steel-guitar-dies-at-78.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><b>BUDDY EMMONS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/04/breaking-legendary-producer-billy-sherrill-dies/31110363/" target="_blank"><b>BILLY SHERRILL</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2015-08-15/bob-johnston-1932-2015/" target="_blank"><b>BOB JOHNSTON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Bienstock" target="_blank"><b>MIRIAM BIENSTOCK</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/arts/buddy-buie-producer-and-hit-making-songwriter-dies-at-74.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><b>BUDDY BUIE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/7/71/504376/1945-2015-soul-singer-billy-butler-dies" target="_blank"><b>BILLY BUTLER</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/nov/26/arthur-brooks-impressions-fame-dies/337674/" target="_blank"><b>ARTHUR BROOKS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lee" target="_blank"><b>CURTIS LEE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Bright" target="_blank"><b>RONNIE BRIGHT</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Goins" target="_blank"><b>HERBIE GOINS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2015/11/cynthia_robinson_trumpeter_and_co_founder_of_sly_and_the_family_stone_passes.html" target="_blank"><b>CYNTHIA ROBINSON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-bo-the-mother-of-the-electric-guitar-whose-rhythm-playing-became-a-vital-part-of-the-bo-diddley-a6670936.html" target="_blank"><b>LADY BO</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/arts/music/ben-cauley-sole-survivor-of-otis-redding-crash-dies-at-67.html" target="_blank"><b>BEN CAULEY</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.commercialappeal.com/entertainment/music/william-brown-was-mad-lads-singer-shaft-engineer-ep-1203539362-324102861.html" target="_blank"><b>WILLIAM BROWN</b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3226378&fh_id=14847" target="_blank"><b>EMERSON ABLE JR.</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.localmemphis.com/news/local-news/tennessee-gene-mason-memphis-music-manager-death" target="_blank"><b>GENE MASON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.commercialappeal.com/entertainment/music/memphis-bluesman-robert-wolfman-belfour-dead-at-74-ep-956052474-324240481.html" target="_blank"><b>ROBERT 'WOLFMAN' BELFOUR</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lee_(musician) target="_blank"><b>LITTLE FRANKIE LEE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://deadfamous.info/eddie-cusic-blues-musician-died-at-89" target="_blank"><b>EDDIE CUSIC</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Wilson" target="_blank"><b>SMOKEY WILSON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/chicago-blues-legend-big-time-sarah-dies-at-62/784598/" target="_blank"><b>BIG TIME SARAH</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Guest_(singer)" target="_blank"><b>WILLIAM GUEST</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/brothers-johnsons-louis-johnson-michael-jackson-bassist-dead-at-60-20150522" target="_blank"><b>LOUIS JOHNSON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/613933/kool-and-the-gang-trombonist-clifford-adams-dies-at-62" target="_blank"><b>CLIFFORD ADAMS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_Felder" target="_blank"><b>WILTON FELDER</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Houston" target="_blank"><b>JOE HOUSTON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Belgrave" target="_blank"><b>MARCUS BELGRAVE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://webapp1.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3261252&fh_id=12745" target="_blank"><b>FRANK DELL</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/drummer-vocalist-popsy-dixon-holmes-brothers-dies-28125004" target="_blank"><b>POPSIE DIXON</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rwdepalma.com/richardcrooks_72" target="_blank"><b>RICHARD CROOKS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100823151" target="_blank"><b>ROSE MARIE McCOY</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andra%C3%A9_Crouch" target="_blank"><b>ANDRAE CROUCH</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://faac.us/adf/messages/2/205879.html?1263926839" target="_blank"><b>ALMETA LATIMER</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortheia_Barnes" target="_blank"><b>ORTHEIA BARNES</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32613573" target="_blank"><b>ERROL BROWN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.soul-source.co.uk/soulforum/topic/344827-sad-news-billy-sha-rae-sad-news-rip/" target="_blank"><b>BILLY SHA-RAE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1910263-Paul-David-Roberts" target="_blank"><b>PAUL DAVID ROBERTS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Gore" target="_blank"><b>LESLEY GORE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/arts/music/p-f-sloan-60s-songwriter-dies-at-70.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><b>P.F. SLOAN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/arts/music/alvin-lee-guitarist-of-ten-years-after-dies-at-68.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1" target="_blank"><b>ALVIN LEE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112" target="_blank"><b>TIM DRUMMOND</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marker" target="_blank"><b>GARY MARKER</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ely" target="_blank"><b>JACK ELY</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_(rock_musician)" target="_blank"><b>MICHAEL BROWN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.people.com/article/dallas-taylor-dead-crosby-stills-nash-drummer-dies" target="_blank"><b>DALLAS TAYLOR</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Hoh" target="_blank"><b>EDDIE HOH</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Garrett" target="_blank"><b>SNUFF GARRETT</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Creatore" target="_blank"><b>LUIGI CREATORE</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thejazzline.com/news/2015/09/alto-sax-legend-phil-woods-has-died-at-83/" target="_blank"><b>PHIL WOODS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/01/02/little-jimmy-dickens-opry-star-dies-obit/21210809/" target="_blank"><b>LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Charters" target="_blank"><b>SAMUEL CHARTERS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_McCormick" target="_blank"><b>MACK McCORMICK</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.soultracks.com/story-victor-castarphen-dies" target="_blank"><b>VICTOR CASTARPHEN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/arts/music/bruce-lundvall-who-revived-blue-note-dies-at-79.html" target="_blank"><b>BRUCE LUNDVALL</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/arts/music/al-abrams-motown-records-first-publicist-dies-at-74.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><b>AL ABRAMS</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/rod-mckuen-mega-selling-poet-performer-dies-81-234455928.html" target="_blank"><b>ROD McKUEN</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Firth" target="_blank"><b>VIC FIRTH</b></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/joe-franklin-dead-88-article-1.2090911" target="_blank"><b>JOE FRANKLIN</b></a></div> <br /><i>Until We Meet Again!</i>
