Obituaries
The Song Remains: Don Everly 1937 – 2021
Personal reflections on a musician who was so much more than a great singer. The great Don Everly has left us. He died at his Nashville home on Saturday, 21st August 2021, he was 84. No […]
Obituaries
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Nanci Griffith 1953 – 2021
Literate songwriter, sublime singer and interpreter, role model and activist. News of Nanci Griffith’s death on 13th August has caused a level of shock and sadness throughout the music community that truly reflects her standing as […]
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Byron Berline 1944 – 2021
Country rock and bluegrass fiddle legend who co-founded Country Gazette. Renowned fiddle player, and sometime mandolin picker, Byron Berline died on 10th July from complications following a recent stroke. As a musician, he was able to […]
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Rusty Young 1946 – 2021
Founding father of country rock, legendary steel guitar player and Poco frontman. On April 14th we lost one of the great pioneers of Country-Rock. Norman Russell Young, known to all as “Rusty” and as a frontman […]
Features
A tribute to my beautiful lost mum, Pat Whitfield
A week last Thursday the phone went at 7.45 in the morning, a call which I’ll never forget. My dad told me that in the middle of the night, my mum had completely out of the […]