Abdullahi Ibrahim around 89
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Willie Nelson just turned 90.
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The great ones music lasts forever. It amazes me how many have passed way to young and the ones that are still around!
You know the legends when their music withstands the test of time.
Ugh - I just learned that one of my favorites, Tom Verlaine (best known as the founder of the band Television) passed away. He was 73
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Welp….
Truly a great.
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I saw Television many times up close & personal in the early days. I
I saw them when they reunited in the early 90s.
Verlaine always impressed me as wanting to just play great music without the encumbrances and rotten shenanigans of the music business. In 1976, when I met him after an early set at CBCBs I asked how he got his name. He said he wanted a flashy stage name. Lol.
I miss him a lot.
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Marianne Faithfull 76. Still kicking I think.
He rose to prominence in the New York of the 1970’s. The East Village and Lower East Side were a bubbling cauldron of artists, ideas and genres that germinated the careers of so many bands, filmmakers, artists and fashion styles.
His passing put me in a somewhat pensive mood, remembering the days when I would see members of the Ramones scurrying about their business. David Byrne, Blondie, Bowie, Patti Smith, Jim Jarmusch and once, even John Waters, I would see meandering around here.
Times have changed and this area is being developed as NYC’s tech incubation/hub, while it has also morphed into a heavily utilized area for film locations by TV/Netflix/Amazon/movie production studios. Still exciting and as always, never boring
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John Mayall, 90
chica chica what?
James Taylor, 75
George Winston, 74
Holly Near, 74
William Ackerman, 74
Leo Kottke, 78
Tom Paxton, 86
Tom Waits, 74
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The man hasn’t aged a bit! 
Sad, but Terry Evans should not be on jour list. He died a couple of years ago.
Oh man. I better make an adjustment, my bad. I was just trying to get more on my list then @Elk.
Corrected.
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And we should put Roger Waters to the list. He will be 80 in september.