Tuneweek, 03-03-2012: RIP Joe Thompson, Davy Jones, Others

Missed a beat last week but back at it again from Cannon Beach OR. Lotsa musical water under the bridge since last edition, and I'm saving my WIntergrass report for when I have time to do it right. A number of notable recent deaths deserve coverage:

Fiddler Joe Thompson, who helped preserve the black string band, 93:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/music/joe-thompson-dies-at-93-fiddler-of-string-band-legacy.html?ref=obituaries 

Playing Black Annie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IytZb5MxIX8 

A YouTube search for his music there:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+thompson+fiddle&oq=joe+thompson&aq=1&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=386156l388587l0l392555l12l12l0l3l3l0l189l860l3.5l8l0

The Carolina Chocolate Drops, who learned from Thompson, performing Hit 'Em Up Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTXJUYiAT4

More Carolina Chocolate Drops:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carolina+chocolate+drops&oq=carolina+chocolate+drops&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=358341l363714l0l365797l24l24l0l15l15l0l122l823l3.5l8l0

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Ben Fong-Torres of the SF Chronicle has a nice remembrance of Davy Jones of the Monkees, who died Wednesday at age 66 of a heart attack:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/02/DDSO1NECON.DTL

Daydream Believer by Jones from one of his last live shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRbgWS37JKY

Last Train to Clarksville, which seemed to play endlessly on my drive home from New York City in 1966 and is my favorite Monkees tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK9H30szHqk

The NYT obituary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/music/davy-jones-a-singer-in-the-monkees-dies-at-66.html?ref=obituaries

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Also Gone But Not Forgot:

Erwin Frankel, world music purveyor, 76:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/music/erwin-frankel-dies-at-76-introduced-the-us-to-world-music.html?adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1330794015-auHI3/hSnRzdX2Q2KIug5w

Maurice Andre, classical trumpeter, 78:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/arts/music/maurice-andre-star-of-classical-trumpet-dies-at-78.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

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That's all for now, keep on musicking!

Bob Loomis

In Loving Memory of Shannon Christine Loomis, 1967-2010