Music News

• Last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Rossington, passes away (New York Times)
• Jazz great, sax player Wayne Shorter dies at 89 (New York Times)
• R Kelly gets 20 years on child sex crimes (New York Times)
• De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove passes away at 54 (New York Times)
• RIP songwriter Burt Bacharach (AP/Boston Globe)
• RIP Television guitarist Tom Verlaine (New York Times)
• David Crosby, founder of Byrds, CSN&Y, dies at 80 (Variety)
• Guitar legend Jeff Beck dies at 78 (New York Times)

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In Concert

• The Beths may be going places
• Blind Boys of Alabama fight off the blues
• Sting feels a bit self-indulgent with orchestra
• With Raichel refusing to stand still, the party's on
• Drink the Kool Aid for Taylor
• For Aftab, "crazy" works out just fine
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