Farewell to musicians and innovators including Johnny Preston, Lamar Fike, Sir George Shearing, Suze Rotolo, Marvin Sease, Monte Owens, Eddie Kirkland, Grady Chapman, Peter Alexander and Maria Elena Walsh ►
Billy Ruane – promoter and true friend to Boston’s local music scene – died unexpectedly on Tuesday, October 26, probably of heart problems he refused to have treated. ►
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jimmy Dean (left), 81, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John,” and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died June 13, 2010. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, … ►