We're in mellow mode today. 

Last year began with the deaths of prominent musicians - Jeff Beck and then Dave Crosby. Along with other sad news I found myself not always recording when this happened. Tina was remembered but many weren't, as the list grew through the year, becoming too many to mention them all. 

- Gordon Lightfoot, Randy Meisner (of the Eagles), John Gosling (Kinks keyboard player in the 70s), David Lindley (multi-instrumentalist in Jackson Browne band - wonderful lap steel guitar), two members of Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Robbie and Tim Bachman, Sinéad O'Connor, Tony McPhee (of the Groundhogs) and many many more... 

So today is for all the people who left us in 2023. 

A version of 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' played by King Curtis & the Kingpins >

 

From the 'King Size Soul' LP (1967)  

Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery in 1934). A master of the soprano, alto and tenor saxophone played rhythm and blues, jazz and rock and roll.