Tribute Thread for the Recently Passed Greats

very sad news. cause of death not available at the moment.Nanci Griffith - Wikipedia

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from wikipedia:Don Everly claimed in a 2014 interview with the Los Angeles Times that he had given up smoking in the late 1960s and that Phil had stopped too but started again during their breakup and had continued until 2001. Don said that weak lungs ran in the family, as their father, Ike, had died of black lung disease. He admitted that he had lived "a very difficult life" with his brother and that he and Phil had become estranged once again in later years, something that was mainly attributed to "their vastly different views on politics and life", with the music being the one thing they shared closely, saying, "it's almost like we could read each other's minds when we sang." However, Don also stated he had not gotten over Phil's death, saying, "I always thought about him every day, even when we were not speaking to each other. It still just shocks me that he's gone." Don added that he had always firmly believed he would die before his brother, because he was older. In a 2016 interview Don said he was still coping with the loss of Phil and that he had kept some of his brother's ashes in his home. He added that he would pick up the ashes every morning and say "good morning", while admitting that it was a peculiar ritual.On August 21, 2021, Don Everly died from a heart attack at his home in Nashville, aged 84.

from Wikipedia:Originally trained as a graphic artist, he started playing drums in London's rhythm and blues clubs, where he met Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. In January 1963, he joined their fledgling group, the Rolling Stones, as drummer, while doubling as designer of their record sleeves and tour stages. Watts, along with Jagger and Richards, are the only band members to have been featured on all of their studio albums. He cited jazz as a major influence on his drumming style. He toured with his own group, the Charlie Watts Quintet, and appeared in London at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club with the Charlie Watts Tentet.In 2006, Watts was elected into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame; in the same year, Vanity Fair elected him into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. In the estimation of music critic Robert Christgau, Watts was "rock's greatest drummer." In 2016, he was ranked 12th on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" list.

Ed Asner - Wikipedia

Bill had already notified me.Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Wikipediathey were hitting the big time right around when i was still in Ann Arbor.

Paddy Moloney - Wikipediafrom Brian O'Donovan's facebook post:Brian O'DonovanPaddy Moloney of the Chieftains, died today[1]. It would be impossible for me to overstate the influence of this one man on the Irish traditional music landscape over the past 60 years. For me personally, it was the Chieftains TV appearances during tributes to (another great) Sean O'Riada in 1971, and those first three Chieftains albums - esp 3 - that lured me towards traditional Irish music in the first place. He will be remembered as a pivotal figure, a true and tireless ambassador for the music, and a major influence on players around the world. I will be broadcasting an extensive tribute on Saturday's radio program. Paddy Moloney was 83.[1] this was yesterday, the 11th, and not today, the 12th.

from Wikipedia:Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ˈsɒndhaɪm/ SOND-hym; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical"[1] with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects"[2] with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication."[3] His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience,"[4] with songs often tinged with "ambivalence"[5] about various aspects of life.Sondheim's accolades include nine Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008),[6] an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also had a theatre named for him on Broadway and in the West End of London.

I was never a fan. I think it may have been Hunter S. Thompson who coined the phrase "the spectre of Bob Dole in the Presidential race" as if he was a rising dead man walking.sorry, someone else will have to cite his accomplishments, other than his WWII service record.

The little community of folk singers I'm in was just rocked pretty hard with the passing of 2 giants in our circles. From the just recently created wiki pages: John Scott Alarik (1951 – 2021) was an American folk singer and writer. Scott wrote for numerous national magazines, including Billboard, Sing Out, and Performing Songwriter. From 1991 to 1997, Alarik was editor and principal writer for the New England Folk Almanac. He was the primary folk music writer for the Boston Globe for many years. He was also a regular performer on Prairie Home Companion.According to Folk New England, "Pete Seeger calls Alarik one of the best writers in America, and Dar Williams calls him 'the finest folk writer in the country.'"Alarik was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 5, 1951, the son of George H. and Caroline (Thacker) Alarik. He began his folk singing career shortly after high school, often performing at a coffeehouse called Heads Together.Alarik opposed the Vietnam War. At the age of 19 he joined the Resistance Movement. He was convicted of resisting the draft and served 19 months in federal prison.Alarik has released five albums, and has appeared at legendary folk music venues such as Caffé Lena in Saratoga Springs, Godfrey Daniels in Pennsylvania, the Speakeasy in Greenwich Village, and the Old Vienna, Iron Horse, and Club Passim in Massachusetts.Alarik is the author of two books, Revival and Deep Community. Revival (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2011) is a novel set in the folk music community, which won the Winner, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Popular Fiction. Deep Community (Black Wolf Press (May 15, 2003)) consists of a series of stories and reviews about the modern folk genre, along with interviews with notable American folk music personalities. Bill Staines (February 6, 1947- December 5, 2021) was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New Hampshire who wrote and performed songs with a wide array of subjects. He also wrote and recorded children's songs.Raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, Staines began his professional career in the early 1960s in the Cambridge area. He began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975, he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He performed about 200 times a year and had appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.Staines's songs include "Bridges", "Crossing the Water", "Sweet Wyoming Home", "The Roseville Fair", "A Place in the Choir", "Child of Mine", and "River". They have been recorded by many other artists, including Peter, Paul and Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glenn Yarbrough, Skip Jones, Jerry Jeff Walker, Schooner Fare, Grandpa Jones, The Grace Family, Hank Cramer, Coty Hogue and Priscilla Herdman. He recorded 22 albums, 15 of which were still in print as of 2005. Staines's songs have been published in four songbooks, If I Were a Word, Then I'd Be a Song (1980); River; Music to Me: The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir.Staines was left-handed and played a right-handed guitar upside-down, with the bass strings on the bottom. Consequently, he had developed his own fingerings and picking style.His memoir, The Tour: A Life Between the Lines, was published in 2004.Staines's song "The Logging Song", from the album Whistle of the Jay, was featured in "Lumberjerk", episode 12 of season 18 of American Dad.Staines lived in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, with his wife, Karen; his son, Bowen; and his springer spaniel, Andy, who appeared on the cover of his album Old Dogs. Bowen is also a folk singer.Staines died on December 5, 2021 at the age of 74 from cancer. He had just made an announcement that he had to cancel his upcoming tour dates and that news was spreading like wildfire across facebook and other social media.

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Not my favorite, but held the fort against the vicious racist totalitarian GOP for a number of years.Harry Reid - Wikipedia

hard to believe...Betty White - Wikipedia

Lani Guinier - Wikipediacertainly started a controversial discussion amongst the racist Republicans and some Progressive Democrats.

I loved her in "The Time Machine".NEW YORK (AP) — Yvette Mimieux, the blond and blue-eyed 1960s film star of “Where the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine” and “Light in the Piazza,” has died. She was 80.Michelle Bega, a family spokeswoman, said Mimieux died in her sleep of natural causes overnight Monday evening at her home in Los Angeles.In 1960′s “The Time Machine,” based on H.G. Wells’ 1895 novel, Mimieux starred opposite Rod Taylor as Weena, a member of the peaceful, blond-haired Eloi people in the year 800,000, who don’t realize they’re being bred as food by the underground Morlocks.That role and others that soon followed made Mimieux one of the ’60s most radiant starlets. The same year, she also starred in the MGM teen movie “Where the Boys Are” as one of four college students on spring break in Florida. Her character, distraught after being sexual assaulted in a motel, walks despondently into traffic.“I suppose I had a soulful quality,” she told the Washington Post in 1979. “I was often cast as a wounded person, the ‘sensitive’ role.”Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born on Jan. 8, 1942, in Los Angeles to a French father and a Mexican mother. She was “discovered” at age 15 when publicist Jim Byron, as he told it, spotted her on bridle path from a helicopter while flying over the Hollywood Hills. She and a friend were riding on horseback; Byron landed in front of them and gave her his card. Mimieux began as a model before MGM signed her in 1959.“The subtle approach is the thing,” Byron told The AP in 1961. “I think we’ve got another Garbo on our hands.”And for a few years, Mimieux was ubiquitous. Life magazine put her on the cover with the headline: “Warmly Wistful Starlet.” She made eight films before turning 21.Mimieux starred in four films in 1962, including Vincent Minnelli’s “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and Guy Green’s “Light in the Piazza.” In the latter, she played the beautiful, mentally handicapped daughter of Olivia de Havilland. On a trip to Italy, Mimieux’s character Clara is pursued by a young Italian in Florence, played by George Hamilton.Mimieux played a bride in “Toys in the Attic” (1963), an epileptic surfer in “Dr. Kildare” (1964) and a bride in “Joy in the Morning” (1965). She was three times nominated for a Golden Globe, including for her role in the short-lived ABC series “The Most Deadly Game,” from Aaron Spelling. In the ’70s and ’80s, she increasingly appeared in TV movies, some of which she helped write.Mimieux co-wrote and co-produced the 1984 CBS TV movie “Obsessive Love,” about a deranged fan obsessed with a soap opera star. Mimieux said she had to battle the network over having a woman, played by herself, in such a role. Her idea stemmed from John Hinckley’s obsession with Jodie Foster, only with the gender roles reversed.“The network felt people wouldn’t believe me as this woman. They said to me, ‘She’s a loner, and she shouldn’t be attractive,’” Mimieux told The New York Times in 1984. “I asked them, ‘Are you saying that only unattractive people can be crazy or lonely or have unfulfilled lives?’″Mimieux said television was never the “love affair” she had with film. But she complained about the kinds of roles she was offered, and the one-dimensional type of women that were written. (One of her last notable movies was the 1979 Disney film “The Black Hole.”) So Mimieux retired from show business in her late 40s. Her interests — including archeology, painting and traveling — always went beyond fame. Off-screen, Mimieux was much more than the naïve starlet she was pigeonholed as.“I decided I didn’t want to have a totally public life,” she told the Post. “When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.“You know, there are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way I think that’s true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships, it cheapens them.”Mimieux first married Evan Harland Engber in 1959 before later divorcing. She was married to the film director Stanley Donen, from 1972 to 1985. In 1986, she married the real estate mogul Howard F. Ruby. She’s survived by Ruby and numerous stepchildren.Edited by xongsmith, : more stuff I left off