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20. I don't know if he ever got together with Willie N, but this song ...
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 10:35 PM
Apr 6

... would have been great for the two of them.

Thanks for this GREAT clip from DemNow. He is just captivating. Once I started that clip I couldn't quit ... my supper was an hour late yesterday! It's obvious that Amy G is a big fan, and he is also one of her fans. Very cool.

Evidently his last gig was in Asheville, NC., on Mar 31. It sounds like he had cancer, and was pretty sick at a festival performance in Knoxville, TN the last week in March, although he did play all his sets. But, "When he had the chance to leave early on Sunday for a sold-out show on Monday across the mountains in Asheville, N.C., the forever peripatetic Hurley took it. Maybe that would be better? Hurley played for a few hundred folks that evening; on Tuesday he flew home to Oregon, and died that night.⁠"

Full article and NPR obit: https://www.instagram.com/nprmusic/p/DICpKn1SCh2/

Anyhow, I won't take more of your time. I just wanted to say how much I appreciated that DemNow clip., and thanks one more time for introducing me to this wonderful human being.

Here's that tune that would have been perfect for Michael and Willie N ... I'm Worried, I'm Worried.




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