RIP - Music related

Unsomnambulist · Mar 7, 2025

Brian James, The Damned's founding guitarist, dies at 70

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-james-the-damneds-founding-guitarist-dies-at-70/

Nickyboy · Apr 5, 2025

Amadou Bagayoko, one half of the Malian group Amadou et Mariam, passed away yesterday. I have one album of theirs which I haven't played in years. It's such fun music. I should give it a spin again.

axolotl · Apr 7, 2025

Drummer Clem Burke, the 'Heartbeat of Blondie,' Dead at 70

Clem Burke, the longtime drummer for Blondie who played a key role in the New Wave movement, has died at the age of 70.

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Nickyboy · Apr 18, 2025

Nino Tempo, age 90. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts/music/nino-tempo-dead.html

axolotl · Apr 30, 2025

Mike Peters: The Alarm singer dies aged 66

The Denbighshire-born singer sold 5m records with The Alarm and lived with cancer over three decades.

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Unsomnambulist · May 2, 2025

“I Kissed A Girl” Singer Jill Sobule Dead At 66

https://www.stereogum.com/2306492/i-kissed-a-girl-singer-jill-sobule-dead-at-66/news/

Unsomnambulist · May 25, 2025

Ojai Sam · May 27, 2025

Two men born elsewhere have recently passed away, each of whom took a love of music and turned it into an essential record label that made vital American music available at the end of the 20th Century.

Barry Poss passes - Bluegrass Today

Barry Poss, co-founder and longtime owner of Sugar Hill Records, died just after midnight this morning in Durham, NC. He 79 years of age at his passing.

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Canadian Barry Poss founded Sugar Hill Records (not to be confused with the hip hop label of the same name) in 1979. He released an astonishing number of uniformly high quality albums in the old time, bluegrass, Americana and country genres. As the linked obit by John Lawless observes, he provided a commercial outlet for dozens of boutique artists at a time when the major labels walked away from roots music.

Marty Stuart, Chris Thille, Ricky Skaggs, Doc Watson, Guy Clark, Chris Hillman, Townes Van Zandt, Connie Smith, and even the ubiquitous Willie Nelson all released albums on Sugar Hill.

Document Records

In Memory of Johnny Parth (1930–2025) Founder of Document Records It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Johnny Parth, founder of Document Records, who died today in Vienna at the...

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Johnny Parth came to love American jazz and blues music while living in his native Vienna during the dark days of WWII. By the late 1980's, he started a label with an objective that was unimaginably ambitious: to release the complete recorded works of every pre-war blues, gospel, and spiritual artist in chronological order. The magnitude of this project combined with the extreme rarity of the source material would have scared anyone else away. But over the course of more than 1,000 releases on Document Records, he came very close to achieving that goal.

Both of these men left a priceless legacy that will entertain and educate music lovers for decades to come.