You”ll have heard her singing backing vocals on several Elvis records, most notably In The Ghetto. King rejoined Skynyrd in 1987, leaving in 1996 due to health problems.Īlmost unnoticed, the singer Jeanie Greene left us.

It”s King who counts in the song, and gives the “woo” after the first chorus “” apart from playing that great lead guitar. As the only non-Southerner in the band, the Californian always felt like an outsider ironically, he co-wrote their Southern anthem Sweet Home Alabama (with the Floridans van Zant and Gary Rossington). Instead, King had left the group in 1975. Had Ronnie van Zant not annoyed him, Ed King might have been in the plane crash that killed his successor as guitarist in Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977. Benefit concerts in 2015 helped Willis out when he lost his home and guitars. For all he did to build up Motown, he said the label didn”t take care of him and his colleagues when they encountered poverty. Postman, Shotgun, Roadrunner, and many hits by Marvin Gaye (from Can I Get A Witness to I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Let”s Get It On) and The Temptations. It”s not always easy knowing exactly on which Funk Brother played on which record, but we know that Willis played on tracks like You Keep Me Hanging On, Where Did Our Love Go, You”ve Really Got A Hold On Me, I Second That Emotion, My Guy, Please Mr.

We had to cut by one the list of the few surviving Funk Brothers, the legendary collective of session musicians on all those great Motown classics, with the death of guitarist Eddie “ Chank” Willis. And, to give you your money”s worth, and because I”m a man who makes lists for fun, I”ll undertake the impossible task of compiling a Top 5 of Aretha Franklin songs: 1. Think about that! This corner of the Internets marked her death with a mix of cover versions recorded by Aretha. Other than to note that her screen husband in The Blues Brothers, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, died just two months before Aretha.

This was one of those months: two or three obviously notable deaths, and a bunch of others that deserve our attention “” including one that was made public only after five months! Spare a thought for the antipodean alt-rock band Beasts of Bourbon, who lost their second member this year.īy now nothing more needs to be said about Aretha Franklin.

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