This past year we lost several important figures in music from legends to pop icons, country crooners and metal thrashers. Innocent Words would like to honor those the music community have lost in 2013. Thank you for the music, rest in peace.
JANUARY
01.01.13
Patti Page, 85, American singer (“Tennessee Waltz”, “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?”) [pictured]
01.04.13
Sammy Johns, 66, American singer-songwriter (“Chevy Van”,
“America”).
01.07.13
Kent Abbott, 32, guitarist for the bands Grade and Somehow Hollow
Tom Ebbert, 93, American trombonist (Dukes of Dixieland),
complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
1.11.13
John Wilkinson, 67, American rhythm guitarist (Elvis Presley’s TCB
Band), cancer.(death announced on this date)
01.17.13
Nic Potter, 61, British bassist (Van der Graaf Generator).
01.17.13
Claudio Leo, Lacuna Coil guitarist, undisclosed “serious disease.”
Claude Black, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer.
0.27.13
Leroy Bonner, 69, American funk singer and guitarist (Ohio Players),
cancer.
01.30.13
Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, last surviving member of The
Andrews Sisters, natural causes.
FEBRUARY
02.01.13
Cecil Womack, 65, American musician and singer.
Rudolf Dašek, 80, Czech guitarist
02.05.13
Reg Presley, 71, British singer (The Troggs) and songwriter (“Love Is All Around”), lung cancer.
02.11.13
Trevor Grills, 54, British singer (Fisherman’s Friends), head injuries.
Rick Huxley, 72, English musician (The Dave Clark Five).
02.14.13
Goldie Harvey, 29, Nigerian R&B-pop singer, short illness.
George “Shadow” Morton, 72, songwriter and producer
Tim Dog, 46, American rapper, complications of diabetes.
02.16.13
Lanier Greig, 64, American rock musician (ZZ Top) (death announced on this date)
02.18.13
Mindy McCready, 37, country singer. suicide
Damon Harris, 62, American soul and R&B singer (The Temptations).
02.21.13
Magic Slim, 75, American blues singer and guitarist [pictured]
Cleotha Staples, 78, American gospel singer (The Staple Singers), member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Alzheimer’s disease.
02.22.13
Diane Lampert, 88, American songwriter, heart failure
02.25.13
Dan Toler, 65, guitarist (Allman Brothers Band) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
02.27.13
Richard Street, 70, American singer (The Temptations), pulmonary embolism.
02.28.13
Daniel Darc, 53, French singer (Taxi Girl), drug overdose.
MARCH
03.01.13
John Kalinowski, 66, British rock-and-roll manager (Madness, Procol Harum, Van Morrison, The Kinks) (death announced on this date)
03.02.13
Bobby Rogers, 73, American soul singer and songwriter (The Miracles), long illness.
03.06.13
Alvin Lee, 68, British guitarist (Ten Years After), complications from surgery. [pictured]
Stompin’ Tom Connors, 77, Canadian country-folk singer (“The Hockey Song”), natural causes.
03.07.13
Chorão, 42, Brazilian musician (Charlie Brown Jr.).
Claude King, 90, American country music singer (“Wolverton Mountain”).
Kenny Ball, 82, English jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.
03.08.13
Peter Banks, 65, Pioneering British guitarist (Yes)
03.12.13
Clive Burr, 56, British drummer (Iron Maiden), multiple sclerosis
03.15.3
Jack Greene, 83, American country music singer (“Statue of a Fool”, ”There Goes My Everything”), complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
Terry Lightfoot, 77, British jazz clarinettist.
03.16.13
Jason Andrew Molina, 39, singer/songwriter guitarist (Songs:Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co) [pictured]
Bobby Smith, 76, American singer (The Spinners).
Eivind Rølles, 54, Norwegian musician (The Monroes), cancer.
03.18.13
Sean Hannan, 45, American rock musician and songwriter (Mad Hannans), cancer.
03.19.13
Floyd McRae, 80, American singer (The Chords), long illness.
03.21.13
Eddie Bond, 79, American rockabilly singer, complications from
Alzheimer’s disease
03.22.13
Derek Watkins, 68, British trumpeter, played on every James Bond
soundtrack
03.23.13
Deke Richards, 68, American Motown songwriter (“ABC”, “The Love You
Save”, “Mama’s Pearl”, “Maybe Tomorrow”), esophageal cancer.
03.26.13
Jay Smith, 34, Canadian guitarist (Matt Mays)
03.27.13
Gordon Stoker, 88, American musician (The Jordanaires)
Paul Williams, 64, American music journalist, publisher (Crawdaddy!), and writer (Bob Dylan, Performing Artist), complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
03.28.13
Robert Zildjian, 89, American musical instrument manufacturer (Sabian)
Hugh McCracken, 60s, American rock and roll session musician, producer and arranger, leukemia
APRIL
04.0]5.13
Chris Bailey, 62, Australian musician (The Angels), throat cancer
04.07.13
Andy Johns, 61, British record producer (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones)
Neil Smith, 59, Australian rock and roll musician (AC/DC), cancer.
04.08.13
Annette Funicello, 70, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club,
Beach Party films) and singer (“Tall Paul”), complications from
multiple sclerosis.
04,10,13
Tim Carr, 57, American music executive (Capitol Records)
Jimmy Dawkins, 76, American blues musician.
04.11.13
Don Blackman, 59, American jazz-funk pianist, singer and songwriter,
cancer.
04.13.13
Chi Cheng, 42, American bassist (Deftones) result from car accident in 2008 [pictured]
Adolph Herseth, 91, American trumpet player (Chicago Symphony
Orchestra).
03.14.13
George Jackson, 68, American singer-songwriter (“Old Time Rock and
Roll”, “One Bad Apple”), cancer.
04.15.13
Dave McArtney, New Zealand musician (Hello Sailor), cancer.
04.1713
Yngve Moe, 55, Norwegian bass guitarist (Dance with a Stranger), drowning.
Gary Biddles, British singer (Fools Dance, Presence).
04.18.13
Bassist Cordell ‘Boogie’ Mosson, 60, bassist Parliament-Funkadelic
04.20.13
Artie White, 76, American soul singer, Parkinson’s disease.[
04.21.13
Chrissy Amphlett, 53, lead singer The Divinyls, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis [pictured]
Dani Crivelli, Drummer Krokus (1987-89)
04.22.13
Richie Havens, 72, American folk singer and guitarist, heart attack
04.26.13
George Jones, 81, American country music singer (“He Stopped Loving Her Today”, “The Race Is On”), hypoxic respiratory failure.
Earl Pionke, 80, American folk nightclub owner, pancreatic cancer.
Braxton Schuffert, 97, American musician (Drifting Cowboys, Hank Williams)
04.28.13
Barry Fey, 73, American concert promoter (Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado Symphony Orchestra).
04.30.13
Paul Shurey, 53, British concert and rave promoter (Tribal Gathering), head injury from fall.[19] (death announced on this date)
Chris Kelly, 34, American rap artist (Kris Kross), drug verdose.
Tim Hensley, 50, American country musician and vocalist (Kenny Chesney, Patti Loveless, Ricky Skaggs), liver failure
MAY
05.02.13
Jeff Hanneman, 49, Slayer Guitarist, liver failure [pictured]
05.04.13
Cedric Brooks, 70, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites), cardiac
arrest.
Greg Quill, 66, Australian roots musician and entertainment critic (Toronto Star), pneumonia.
05.11.13
Grayson Minney, 28, American rock musician, traffic collision (Columbia Fields )
05.17.13
Alan O’Day, 72, American singer and songwriter (“Undercover Angel”, ”Angie Baby”), brain cance
05.20.13
Ray Manzarek, 74, American rock musician (The Doors), bile duct cancer. [pictured]
05.21.13
Trevor Bolder, 62, British musician (David Bowie, Uriah Heep), cancer.
Steve Hyams, 62, guitarist and singer, Mott the Hoople, heart
problems
Phil Buerstatte, 44 White Zombie drummer, Last Crack
05.24.13
Ed Shaughnessy, 84, American drummer, (The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson),
05.25.13
Marshall Lytle, 79, American rock and roll musician (Bill Haley & His Comets), inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2012), lung cancer.
05.26.13
Clarence Burke, Jr., 62, American singer (“O-o-h Child”), songwriter and guitarist (Five Stairsteps).
05.27.13
Hideki Yoshimura, 46, Japanese punk rock musician (Bloodthirsty Butchers), heart failure.
05.29.13
Marvin Junior, 77, American R&B singer (The Dells), inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004), kidney failure.
Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist, stroke.
05.30.13
Gail Heil, 67, American folk musician, cancer.
Jerry McGill, 73, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and outlaw documentary subject.
JUNE
06.01.13
Janie Thompson, 91, American singer (Isaac M. “Ike” Carpenter) and academic.
06.02.13
Rob Morsberger, 53, American rock and roll singer and songwriter, glioblastoma.
Mick Morris, 35, bassist Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through and Clear. preexisting heart condition.
06.03.13
Piano C. Red, 79, American blues musician.
Chris Levoir, 31, Canadian musician (The Mark Inside). (death announced on this date)
06.04.13
Ben Tucker, 82, American jazz musician, traffic collision.[
06.04.13
Jim Sundquist, 75, American rockabilly musician (The Fendermen), cancer.
Joey Covington, 67, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), traffic collision.
06.06.13
Bert Wilson, 73, American jazz saxophonist and sideman.
06.09.13
Arturo Vega, 65, Mexican-born American punk graphic designer and artistic director (The Ramones).
Darondo, 67, American soul singer, heart failure
06.12.13
Johnny Smith, 90, American jazz guitarist and songwriter ("Walk, Don't Run"), natural causes
06.19.13
Slim Whitman, 90, American country singer-songwriter ("Indian Love Call", "Rose Marie"), heart failure.
Chet Flippo, 69, American music journalist (Rolling Stone, Billboard), music critic and author.
06.22.13
Wendy Saddington, 64, Australian jazz and blues singer (Chain), oesophageal cancer.
06.23.13
Jeanne Arland Peterson, 91, American jazz pianist
Bobby Bland, 83, American blues and soul singer ("Further Up the Road", "Turn On Your Love Light"), inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992) [pictured].
JULY
07.01.13
Maarten van Roozendaal, 51, Dutch singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
Gary Shearston, 74, Australian singer and songwriter, stroke
Texas Johnny Brown, 85, American blues musician and songwriter
07.03.13
Johnny MacRae, 84, American country songwriter (“I’d Love to Lay You Down”, “(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven”), heart disease.
07.04.13
Bernie Nolan, 52, Irish singer (The Nolans) and actress, breast cance
07.08.13
Shaun Kirkpatrick, founder/guitarist 1980s British band Bronz, suspected heart attack
07.10.13
Teddy Days, 48, Hellion bassist
Peppi Marchello, 68, American rock musician (The Good Rats), complications from heart surgery.
07.15.13
Curly Lewis, 88, American swing fiddler (The Texas Playboys), lung cancer
07.16.13
T-Model Ford, 93, American blues musician, respiratory failure [pictured]
07.18.13
Carline Ray, 88, American jazz guitarist.
07.20.13
Faye Hunter, 59, bassist Let’s Active, suicide
07.22.13
GiGi Hines, 76, American blues singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
07.25.13
Steve Berrios, 68, American Latin jazz drummer
Mike Shipley, Australian-born British Grammy Award-winning sound engineer and music producer (Def Leppard).[6] (death announced on this date)
07.26.13
JJ Cale, 74, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter(“Cocaine”, “After Midnight”, “Call Me the Breeze”) and musician, heart attack. [pictured]
07.27.13
Mick Farren, 69, British music journalist, author and singer (The Deviants).
07.30.13
Nick Nixon, 72, American country singer and songwriter, lung disease.
AUGUST
08.01.13
Kerry Strayer, 56, American saxophonist and bandleader, prostate
cancer.
John Dengate, 74, Australian folk singer and songwriter
08.02.13
Steve Jones, 57, American music journalist and critic (USA Today)
08.04.13
Tim Wright, 61, American bass guitarist (Pere Ubu, DNA), suspected drug overdose.
08.05.13
James Gray, 52, Canadian country rock keyboardist (Blue Rodeo), heart attack.
George Duke, 67, American Grammy Award-winning jazz fusion keyboardist, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
08.06.13
Bill Putt, Australian progressive rock musician (Spectrum, Ariel), heart attack.
08.07.13
Marilyn King, 82, American singer, last surviving member of The King Sisters, cancer.
Bill Johnston, 69, American music venue owner (The Warehouse), throat cancer.
08.08.13
Jack Clement, 82, American record and film producer, songwriter and singer (Sun Records, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, U2), liver cancer.
08.10.13
Jody Payne, 77, American musician (Willie Nelson’s Family), heart failure.
Eydie Gormé, 84, American singer (“Blame It on the Bossa Nova”).
Phil Baheux, 45, Belgian heavy metal drummer (Channel Zero).
08.13.13
Tompall Glaser, 79, American country music singer.
Jon Brookes, 44, British drummer (The Charlatans), brain tumour.
08.14.13
Allen Lanier, 66, American rock keyboardist and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult), COPD.
08.15.13
Jane Harvey, 88, American jazz singer, cancer
08.19.13
Cedar Walton, 79, American jazz pianist.
Donna Hightower, 86, American singer.
08.21.13
Jay P. Richardson, 54, American musician, son of The Big Bopper.
Sid Bernstein, 95, American music producer and promoter, brought The
Beatles and The Rolling Stones to the United States [pictured].
08.23.13
Joey LaCaze, 42, American metal drummer (Eyehategod), respiratory failure
SEPTEMBER
09.07.13
Fred Katz, 94, American jazz cellist and composer
09.12.13
Ray Dolby, 80, American inventor (Dolby NR, surround sound), leukemia [pictured]
09.15.13
Jackie Lomax, 69, English guitarist and singer-songwriter ( George Harrison and Eric Clapton)
09.16.13
Jimmy Ponder, 67, American jazz guitarist, lung cancer
Mac Curtis, 74, American rockabilly singer, injuries received in a traffic collision
09.17.13
Marvin Rainwater, 88, American country and rockabilly singer (“Whole Lotta Woman”).
Bernie McGann, 76, Australian jazz alto saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.
Alex Naumik, 64, Lithuanian-born Norwegian artist, songwriter and record producer.
Kristian Gidlund, 29, Swedish musician (Sugarplum Fairy) and journalist, cancer
09.18.13
Lindsay Cooper, 62, British rock and jazz bassoonist and oboist (Henry Cow, Comus, Feminist Improvising Group), multiple sclerosis.
09.23.13
Gia Maione, 72, American jazz singer
09.24.13
Pat Fear, 52, American punk rock musician (White Flag); death announced on this date
09.27.13
Lorne Black, American bassist (Great White).
OCTOBER
10.05.13
Butch Warren, 74, American jazz bassist, cancer.
10.08.13
Phil Chevron, guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Pogues) cancer.
10.10.13
Cal Smith, 81, American country singer (“The Lord Knows I’m
Drinking”, “Country Bumpkin”).
Jan Kuehnemund, 51, guitarist (Vixen) cancer [pictured]
10.15.13
Gloria Lynne, 83, American jazz vocalist, heart attack
Donald Bailey, 80, American jazz drummer
10.18.13
Roland Janes, 80, American rockabilly guitarist and record producer
10.23.13
Gypie Mayo, 62, English rock guitarist (Dr. Feelgood, The Yardbirds) and songwriter (“Milk and Alcohol”).
10.26.13
Al Johnson, 65, American soul singer (The Unifics).
10.27.13
Lou Reed, 71, American rock musician (The Velvet Underground) liver disease [pictured].
10.28.13
Layne Redmond, 61, American drummer and author.[37]
10.30.13
Frank Wess, 91, American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
10.31.13
Pete Haycock, 62, English guitarist (Climax Blues Band).
NOVEMBER
11.01.13
Bobby Parker, 76, American blues-rock guitarist.
Lee Crystal, drummer (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts), complications from multiple sclerosis
11.02.13
Bill Lawrence, 82, German–born American electric guitar designer and maker.
11.04.13
Charlie Chesterman, American rock musician, (Scruffy the Cat) cancer.
11.06.13
Clyde Stacy, 77, American musician, co-creator of the Tulsa Sound, traffic collision
11.11.13
Arash Farazmand, 28, Iranian rock drummer (The Yellow Dogs), shot.
Bob Beckham, 86, American music publisher and country singer.
11.12.13
Sir John Tavener, 69, British composer (Children of Men).
11.23.13
Wayne Mills, 44, American country music singer, shot.[7
11.25.13
Chico Hamilton, 92, American jazz drumme
William Adam, 96, American trumpeter and bandleader.
Bob Day, 72, English pop singer (The Allisons)
11.29.13
Dick Dodd, 68, Drummer for the tandells, cancer of the esophagus, spleen, liver and spine
DECEMBER
12.02.13
Junior Murvin, 67, Reggae Singer, diabetes and hypertension
12.05.13
Andy Pierce, 45, lead singer, Nasty Idols, brain hemorrhage
12.07,13
Chick Willis, 79, American blues singer, cancer.
12.08.13
John Wyker, 68, American singer/songwriter musician (Sailcat)
12.09.13
Lynne Kieran, 53, British-born Austrian singer (The Rounder Girls).
12.10.13
Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger [pictured]
12.11.13
George H. Buck, Jr., 84, American music industry executive.
12.16.13
Ray Price, 87, American country music singer (“For the Good Times”), pancreatic cancer.
12.17.13
Paul Bäumer, 37, Dutch record producer (Bingo Players), cancer.
12.19.13
Herb Geller, 85, American jazz saxophonist, pneumonia
12.20.13
David Richards, 57, British record producer
12.21.13
Yusef Lateef, 93, American Grammy Award-winning saxophonist (Yusef Lateef’s Little Symphony).
12.22.13
Trigger Alpert, 97, American jazz double-bassist (Glenn Miller band).
12.23.13
Ricky Lawson, 59, American drummer (Michael Jackson, Phil Collins), brain aneurysm.
Yusef Lateef, 93, American Grammy Award-winning saxophonist (Yusef Lateef’s Little Symphony).
12.26.13
Boyd Lee Dunlop, 87, American jazz pianist.
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