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...most notable has been Sidgmore, 46, a weekend rock guitarist who masterminded last week's AOL deal. Sidgmore worked out the three-way swap with AOL chairman Steve Case at a breakfast meeting in July. Voila! WorldCom now controls the networking divisions of CompuServe, AOL and the Microsoft Network, which was already in the fold. Yet neither Sidgmore nor Ebbers plans to stop adding to their empire anytime soon. Asked whether WorldCom will continue its voraciously acquisitive ways, Ebbers responds with typical bluntness, "Are we alive...
DIED. LUTHER ALLISON, 57, searing blues guitarist; of lung cancer; in Madison, Wis. Born on an Arkansas cotton plantation, he played with nearly every major blues figure in the past 30 years, keeping the music alive as rap and soul captured successive generations of black audiences. With the blues dying out at home, he eventually moved to the more reverential shores of France...
DIED. JOHNNY COPELAND, 60, the Texas Twister blues guitarist who earned his nickname for his energetic play and roof-raising vocals; after his eighth open-heart surgery; in New York City. He won a 1986 Grammy for collaborating on the electrifying album Showdown...
...naive rarely succeed in the music world; the embitters, jaded and cynical usually help the innocent to an early defeat. In John Darnielle's world, if naivete fares no better than in real life, at leas his futility is captivating. The writer-vocalist-guitarist of the Mountain Goats demonstrated his earnestness last week at the Middle East, offering the latest in a series of swan songs that make up his live appearances...
DIED. RONNIE LANE, 51, fun-loving British rock guitarist; after a two-decades-long struggle with multiple sclerosis; in Trinidad, Colo. The bassist co-founded Small Faces, which became the band that launched Rod Stewart. In 1977, as Lane began to feel the effects of the disease, he collaborated with Pete Townshend on the rock-'n'-roll classic Rough...