I'm stealing a line from Greil Marcus (who can spare one or two from his extensive critical canon) as I reflect on the deaths of a spate of local musicians and music-loving friends who would be my contemporaries, had they not passed prematurely. Namely: Mark Linthicum (aka "Harpo," "Mark Harp," "The King of Peru," et al), Kraig Krixer ("Trixie), Roger Anderson (The Marble Bar), and most recently, Chris Dennstaedt and DJ/music historian John Rouse. To wit...
"Death's mortgage on their bodies will never transcend music's lien on their souls."- Tom Warner, paraphrasing Marcus (on Dylan, Levon Helm, Buddy Holly, et al.)
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| Roger Anderson, d. 1986. |
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| Mark "Harp" Linthicum, d. 2004 |
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| Kraig Krixer, d. 2011 |
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| Chris Dennstaedt, d. 2019 |
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| John Rouse, d. 2020 |
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