People Are Dying Here

Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Holly Dunn, Mose Allison, Sharon Jones – those are the latest artists who died over the last ten days. Has this year been awful for people dying, or what? Look, Cohen and Allison were in their 80’s, so there was no great surprise there. We’ll be losing aging rock and jazz guys a lot in the coming years. Leon Russell was 74, and they had to cancel concerts in 2017 that Russell had scheduled – so he wasn’t planning on dying. Sharon Jones had pancreatic cancer that they thought was cured but came back. She was on her last legs – at 60. Holly Dunn had ovarian cancer and died at age 59. Along with all of the other artists who died this year, it’s been a horrible year for deaths.

So if someone who is aging is playing near you, go out and see him or her. Their legacy demands it, and their life expectancy is such that death may come at any time – death has not taken a holiday this year.

When I out this playist together Leon was still alive – it’s just a song I wanted to play, but it became a memorial by the time I put the recording together. So let’s solemnly listen to Lone Justice, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, the Replacements, the The, the Beatles, the Dukes of Stratosphear, Pink Floyd, the Ruts, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Toots & the Maytals, Leon Russell, T. Rex, Luke Winslow King, and Lydia Loveless on this week’s podcast.

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