Rock & Roll Birthdays

• 1946 Terry Kath, American musician & songwriter (Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)

• 1907 Emanuel Sayles, American jazz banjo player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band), born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana (d. 1986)

• 1915 Alan Lomax, American ethno-musicologist, and folklorist, born in Austin, Texas (d. 2002)

• 1928 Chuck Willis, American rock vocalist (C C Rider), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 195

• 1932 (Anna) Ottilie Patterson, Irish blues and jazz singer (Chris Barber Jazz Band), born in Comber, Northern Ireland (d. 2011)

• 1944 Charlie Musselwhite, American blues harmonica player (Stand Back!; Get Up!), born in Kosciusko, Mississippi

• 1946 Terry Kath, American rock guitarist & songwriter (Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)

• 1937 Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr Hook), born in Chickasaw, Alabama (d. 201

• 1939 Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician

• 1950 Mike Campbell, American guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Breakdown"), born in Panama City, Florida

• 1950 Rich Williams, American guitarist (Kansas), born in Topeka, Kansas

• 1979 Jason Isbell, American singer (Drive-By Truckers), born in Green Hill, Alabama

Amos Otis said:

1929 Stan Getz

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• 1942 Graham Nash, British-American musician and singer-songwriter (the Hollies, Crosby, Stills & Nash), born in Blackpool, Lancashire

• 1947 Peter Lucia, American rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue), born in Morristown, New Jersey

• 1935 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist