Category: Notices
George Butler 1936-2005
The great bluesman George "Wild Child" Butler died Tuesday, March 1 in a Windsor, Ontario hospital, the result of a pulmonary embolism. He was 68.
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Remembering David Baker
A world-class recording engineer and close friend to Acoustic Sounds and Blue Heaven Studios, David Baker died Tuesday night, July 13 in his sleep. Baker, 58, was on a job in Rochester, NY when he passed.
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Kansas City Bluesman Little Hatch Dead at 81
"Harp players are a dying breed." So once said a man who knew.
Little Hatch likely was the best harp player ever to make Kansas City home. He died Tuesday night, 81 years old, and with Hatch went Blues as thick and dirty as the smoke-filled air in the bars he ruled.
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Bluesman Jimmie Lee Robinson Dead at 71
Blues legend Jimmie Lee Robinson, known to fans as The Lonely Traveller,
died July 6 in Chicago following his battle with cancer. He was 71.
Robinson, a Chicago native and lifelong resident whose legal and Muslim
name was JL Latif Aliomar, began playing guitar in Chicago's famed
open-air market on Maxwell Street in 1942 along with the likes 
of Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk.
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