The Notable Death Thread

[Iain Aschendale]

David Allen Coe has taken the job of being alive and shoved it once and forever.

He's the most famous person I've ever nearly sorta met. He played at the E-Club on K-Bay sometime when I was stationed there. I was waiting in line at the barber shop because the 1st Sgt was on my ass about my hair and this long-haired, bearded dude stuck his head in and said "You guys mind if I go next?," smiled, and popped back out.

Not quite the Dalai Lama granting me perfect clarity at the moment of my death or whatever, but a story.

 

[JLT]

David Allen Coe has taken the job of being alive and shoved it once and forever.

He did a masterful job on Steve Goodman's "You never even call me by my name" but my introduction to him was his own "Longhaired Redneck," which was on Malachi Mudgong's alt-country program "Asylum Radio" on KUNM in Albuquerque. Well worth listening to. I will raise my next beer in a toast to him.

I think Willie Nelson and Hank Williams, Jr. are the only high-profile ones left of the "outlaw country" gang, although there are still a lot of second-tier artists around.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Willie Nelson is the Keith Richards of country-western music... or Keith Richards is the Willie Nelson of rock. I'm not sure which. Willie's about ten years older.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I've been on Willie Nelson's tour bus. He wasn't there, but I left him snacks when I worked casinos.

 

[Rad Scribbler]

Motor racing driver, Alex Zanardi, passed away aged 59.