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DIED. Sam Myers, 70, Delta bluesman and master harmonica player whose 1956 single Sleeping in the Ground was later covered by musicians from Robert Cray to Eric Clapton; of throat cancer; in East Dallas, Texas. In 1986, Myers revived his career as front man for Dallas-based Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, considered among the U.S.'s best blues ensembles and the winner of nine W.C. Handy awards--the blues' Grammys...
...DIED. Sam Myers, 70, Delta bluesman and master harmonica player whose 1956 single Sleeping in the Ground was later covered by musicians from Robert Cray to Eric Clapton; of throat cancer; in East Dallas, Texas. In 1986, Myers revived his career as front man for Dallas-based Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, considered among the U.S.'s best blues ensembles and the winner of nine W.C. Handy awards-the blues' Grammys...
...DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing?an arcane art that involves the production of more than one note at the same time?became the subject of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the early 1990s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing--an arcane art from a region in Central Asia that involves producing more than one note at the same time--became the subject of an Academy Award--nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the 1980s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
...DIED. CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, 81, cowboy-hatted roots guitarist and fiddler who continually protested against being labeled a bluesman, insisting that his fusion of jazz, country, R&B and Cajun defied categorization; in Orange, Texas. He died 10 days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted...