Willie Bobo born 28 February 1934

Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa (February 28, 1934 – September 15, 1983), was one of the great Latin percussionists of his time, a relentless swinger on the congas and timbales, a flamboyant showman onstage, and an engaging 

if modestly endowed singer. He also made serious inroads into the pop, R&B and straight jazz worlds, and he always said that his favourite song was Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Dindi."

William Correa grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He began his professional career as a dancer at the age of 12. Bobo began playing the bongos at age 14, only to find himself performing with Perez Prado a year later, studying with Mongo Santamaria while serving as his translator, and joining Tito Puente for a four-year stint at age 19. 

He was given his stage name as a teen-ager by Mary Lou Williams, the pianist, who took to calling him Bobo - Spanish for life of the party - during a recording session.  

His first major exposure was when he joined George Shearing's band on the album The Shearing Spell. After leaving Shearing, Cal Tjader asked Bobo and Santamaría to become part of the Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, who released several albums as the mambo craze reached fever pitch in the late 1950s. Reuniting with his mentor Santamaría in 1960, the pair released the album Sabroso! for the Fantasy label. Bobo later formed his own group with Clark Terry and Joe Farrell as sidemen releasing Do That Thing/Guajira with Tico and Bobo's Beat and Let's Go Bobo for Roulette, without achieving huge penetration.

Recording for Verve in the mid-'60s, Bobo achieved his highest solo visibility with albums that enlivened pop hits of the day with Latin rhythms, spelled by sauntering originals like "Spanish Grease, " the title track being perhaps his most well known tune. Highly successful at this attempt, Bobo released a further six albums with Verve which included the sauntering "Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries."

                               

In addition, Bobo played on innumerable sessions in New York, recording with artists like Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, 

Herbie Hancock, Wes Montgomery, Chico Hamilton and Sonny Stitt. In the early 1970s, he moved out to Los Angeles. He again met up with his longtime friend Richard Sanchez Sr. and his son Richard Jr. and began recording in the studio. Bobo then worked as a session musician for Carlos Santana among others, as well as being a regular in the band for Bill Cosby's variety show Cos. Santana covered Willie Bobo's Latin song "Evil Ways" in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s, Bobo recorded albums for Blue Note and Columbia Records.

Despite the weakened condition due to cancer which was diagnosed in November 1982, Bubo continued to perform. One of Bobo's last appearances, only three months before his death from cancer, was at the 1983 Playboy Jazz Festival where he reunited with Santamaria for the first time in 15 years. He was 49 years old.

(Edited from Wikipedia & AllMusic)

Jackie Lynton born 27 February 1940

Jackie Lynton (February 27, 1940) is a British guitarist and singer who emerged from the 2i’s coffee bar at the turn of the 60’s and proceeded to carve out a reputation as a memorable live performer and great favourite of the RnR package tour circuit..

Born John Bertram Lynton in Shepperton, Middlesex, Jackie first began singing in his church choir. However he was bitten by the rock ‘n’ roll bug early on and, after performing Blue Suede Shoes

at a talent show he and his band (originally known the Plect-Tones, before changing their name to the Teenbeats) started to attract attention. In no time at all he was playing at the famous of rival agents: consequently, by the time he got around to establishing a residency at 2 I’s Coffee Bar in Soho: proprietor Tom Littlewood subsequently became Jackie’s first professional manager.

Under Littlewood’s guidance Jackie graduated to the Larry Parnes package tour circuit where he worked alongside Billy Fury, Vince Taylor & the Playboys, Wee Willie Harris, Terry Dene, Lance Fortune, Screaming Lord Sutch & His Savages, John Leyton, Freddie Starr & the Midnighters and others. Later on Littlewood managed to score a recording deal with Pye’s new Piccadilly label.

His first disc Over The Rainbow, was an odd choice and it failed to chart, although it did pick up some decent reviews. Oddly, Lonnie Donegan also covered the song around the same time. Hailed by New Musical Express as ‘Most Promising Newcomer’, Jackie was widely tipped to make it big – but never quite did. The follow up, Wishful Thinking also failed to hit the charts. Then came a rocking version of the classic All Of Me, which marked the recording debut of blues guitarist Albert Lee.  The single was well reviewed, but despite selling steadily it again missed the charts. Similarly I Believe also failed to find an audience.

                                

It was at this point that Jackie’s career took a bizarre twist: his next single was an insane version of the children’s song The Teddy Bears' Picnic. An utterly ridiculous record, it however went on to become Jackie’s best selling single and was the closest he came to scoring a bone fide chart hit. But, like all of the singles that preceded it, The Teddy Bears' Picnic also proved unsuccessful.

One of the many Brit rockers to find an audience in Hamburg, he recorded 16 tracks in the city in just one day in 1964, although these were released credited to Boots Wellington & His Rubber Band, as he was still under contract to Pye/Piccadilly. After a couple more releases, Jackie left Piccadilly records. The sessions he had performed on had been graced by some of the biggest names of the early 60s rock scene - Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, Herbie Flowers, Clem Cattini and Albert Lee among them. There was even talk of him forming a band with the young Ritchie Blackmore as early as 1962: apparently the pair were to be mentored by legendary producer Kim Fowley.

He issued one last single on Piccadilly, Laura, before he left the music scene for a while. However the stage still beckoned and, in 1965, he cut a number of independently-produced sides with Ray Horricks, two of which turned up on a Decca single of Three Blind Mice & Corrina Corrina. Jackie went on to cut three singles for Columbia, all produced by Mark Wirtz but again he failed to score that elusive hit which would have finally taken him into the big time. With little in the way of steady income from his recordings Jackie maintained a day job, working as a painter and decorator (he worked on John Lennon’s Weybridge mansion) whilst gigging at weekends and cutting the occasional disc. During the 70s he became a member of Savoy Brown (and finally charted – in the US at least – with the album Jack the Toad) and, in 1974, finally issued his first full-length solo album The Jackie Lynton Album, which included his live favourite The Hedgehog Song.

He spent a few years dabbling in the pop ballad field: he recorded a few sides for European release, recorded the vocals for an Ennio Morricone song The Ballad of Hank McCain for the Italian market and even made demos for smug repeat offender Mike ‘Ukip Calypso’ Read. Then, in 1978, Status Quo scored a massive hit with Again And Again, co-written by Jackie and Quo’s Rick Parfitt.  The following year he assembled a host of old friends - including Parfitt, Clem Clemson, Chas and Dave and several members of Manfred Mann's Earth Band - to record his second solo album, No Axe To Grind.

Since then he’s continued to gig and record and has enjoyed resurgence on the Festival circuit, with appearances in 2017 at "Weyfest" and "A New Day" festivals. And despite a career of 'almost', 'nearly' and 'what could have been', Lynton to his credit has stayed within the music scene for nearly 60 years, despite the fact he himself admits he was "never gonna be a star".

(Edited from jackielynton.com)

Jan Crutchfield born 26 February 1938

Jan Lynn Crutchfield (February 26, 1938 – October 30, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter. During his career, Crutchfield earned seven BMI Awards and was twice nominated for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His “Statue of a Fool” was a top-10 hit three different times.

A native of Paducah, KY, Jan Crutchfield emerged on Nashville’s country-music scene in the early 1960s. Released his first single for the Phillips label in 1962 under the name of Jan Fields. 

                              

 In 1963, Faron Young sang the first of the songwriter’s many subsequent country hits, “Down By the River” and “We’ve Got 
Something in Common.” In 1965, Perry Como took Crutchfield’s  “Dream on Little Dreamer” onto the pop hit parade.

Bonnie Guitar scored with his “I’m Living in Two Worlds” in 1966, and the song went on to be recorded by at least eight other stars, including Loretta Lynn and Dinah Shore. Charley Pride sang Crutchfield’s “Does My Ring Burn Your Finger” into the country top-10 in 1967.

In that same year, Wilma Burgess introduced the songwriter’s melodic “Tear Time.” It was revived and taken to No. 1 by Dave & Sugar in 1978 and re-recorded by K.T. Oslin in 1996.

The classic “Statue of a Fool” became one of Jack Greene’s signature songs in 1967, when it became a No. 1 hit. He continued to sing it on Grand Ole Opry broadcasts into the 2000's. Brian Collins returned the song to the country top-10 in 1974, and it became a major hit a third time when sung by Ricky Van Shelton in 1989.

Jean Shepard (1970’s “Another Lonely Night”), Wanda Jackson (1971’s “Fancy Satin Pillows”), Faron Young (1972’s “This Little Girl of Mine”) and Tanya Tucker (1977’s “Ridin’ Rainbows”) kept Jan Crutchfield’s songs on the charts during the 1970s.

Lee Greenwood revived the songwriter’s fortunes in the 1980s by recording the Crutchfield-penned “It Turns Me Inside Out” (1981), “She’s Lying” (1982) and “Going, Going, Gone” (1984). Both Tucker and Greenwood were produced by Jan Crutchfield’s brother, Jerry Crutchfield.

The songwriter’s last charted title was 1985’s “It Should Have Been Love by Now,” a duet by Barbara Mandrell and Greenwood. But he continued to have songs recorded in the 1990s, such as 1993’s “Heartaches on Parade” by Cleve Francis. Even more recently, Ray Price recorded the Jan Crutchfield tune “You Just Don’t Love Me Anymore” in 2002.

Crutchfield died on October 30, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 74.

(Edited from MusicRow & Wikipedia)

Betty Madigan born 1930

Betty Madigan (born 1930*) is an American traditional popular singer and actress who never achieved the success she deserved.

It seems she was born sometime in 1930 in Washington, D.C., and at age 24 became a musical sensation overnight following her hit recording of the ballad "Joey" in 1954. She was rated "the newer female vocalist with the greatest chance to become one of the top female vocalist names" in a poll of disc jockeys conducted by 
Billboard. To that point she had some 7 singles to her credit at MGM, two of which became national hits: in 1953, You're Thoughtless/I Just Love You and My Heart Is Dancing With You/Call Me Darling

She worked extensively throughout that period and was often seen on TV and headlined posh supper clubs. Madigan appeared on The Red Skelton Hour, The Dave Garroway Show, and The Colgate Comedy Hour. In 1956, she portrayed Martha Cratchitt in a 1956 episode of The Alcoa Hour called "The Stingiest Man in Town." She performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957, and on The Dick Clark Show on 1958. Bettys Biggest hit around the World was arguably “Dance Everyone dance" issued By Coral #13 Australia, # 31 USA  #21 Canada (1958)

                                 

After signing with MGM Records she also moved to Coral, making numerous recordings for both labels. Betty could sing anything--ballad, up-tempo number, novelty--and had a bracingly crisp and colourated voice, great natural sense with lyrics and mood, and top-notch technical values as a singer. Her albums were her real forte but she only got one at M-G-M (compared to Joni James' 36, a 

record for girl singers for many years). She also was a superlative live performer, particularly in intimate sophisticated clubs, and that facet of her talents gave her a big career. Both her M-G-M album "Am I Blue?" and the "Jerome Kern Songbook" on Coral approach a lot of familiar songs with surprising treatments and rhythms. This makes both these albums endlessly listenable and enjoyable.

In the 1960’s she retired to get married and raise her children (as Betty Madigan Brandt). She lives in Bar Harbor, Florida, where she is socially active and is very involved in philanthropy.

Bella Goldstein, Betty Madigan Brandt, Nancy Wilson and Julieta Vall  2008

In November 2018, Jasmine Records released a two-CD compilation of her singles recorded between 1953 and 1961, totalling 58 songs,. Sepia Records also released a CD containing two of her albums, "Am I Blue?" and "The Jerome Kern Songbook

(Edited from various sources of which one gives birthday as 1 October 1933)

Bruce Forsyth born 22 February 1928

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British presenter and entertainer whose career spanned more than 70 years.

Bruce Joseph Forsyth Johnson was born in Edmonton, north London,, the youngest son of a garage owner, and was educated at the Latymer School. Aged 10 he was travelling two hours a day to attend tap-dancing lessons, and at 14 he left school to tour with a concert party. Billed as “Boy Bruce, The Mighty Atom”, he wore a sequin-covered suit and did an act as a bellboy who, having carried various bags onstage, opened them and played a ukulele, an accordion and did a tap routine.

After seven years of touring with variety acts, Forsyth got his break at the Windmill Theatre in 1947 where he was to remain for two years.  

In 1951, after two years’ National Service in the RAF, Forsyth gave himself five years to become famous. “I didn’t want to be a frustrated old pro,” he remembered. “Luckily I got the job at the Palladium with only a year of my five left.”  That was in 1955, when he took over from Tommy Trinder as compère of the hugely popular television variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Forsyth was an even greater hit with audiences, who liked his somewhat badgering style. The show comprised comics, dancers, a big star and Beat The Clock, a game for members of the audience in which the competitors had to perform various absurd tasks while being heckled by the host.

                                

It was during these shows at the Palladium that Forsyth introduced three catchphrases that stayed with him throughout his career: “I’m in charge”; “Nice to see you – to see you nice”; and “Didn’t he do

Bruce with Sammy Davis Jr.

well?”

When Sunday Night at the London Palladium came to an end in 1965, Forsyth starred in his own television show, which in turn led to The Generation Game. During the making of the series he began to gain a reputation as something of a prima donna, one crew member complaining: “If somebody asks him something and he thinks it’s unimportant, we all suffer.”

As he hit his forties he also branched out into acting, turning up in a cluster of light musical films, notably Robert Wise’s Star!, about the actress Gertrude Lawrence, with Julie Andrews; the Anthony Newley vehicle Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969); and Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). 

Julie Andrews, Bruce Forsyth, Beryl Reid

He also appeared in The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), a quickly forgotten low-budget comedy directed by Graham Stark and featuring cameos from virtually every British comic performer of the era. 

In 1973, having divorced his first wife, Penny Calvert, he married Anthea Redfern, his “hostess” on The Generation Game, whom he met at a “Miss Lovely Legs contest. The marriage was dissolved in 1982. By this time, despite various setbacks, Forsyth was still showing the boundless energy that had made his previous game shows so engaging and successful. By 1983 he had his glamorous third wife – who was the same age as his daughter – and had begun to sport an ill-disguised toupee.

After several years of presenting Play Your Cards Right on ITV he returned for a third time to the United States in 1986 with another new game show, called Bruce Forsyth’s Hot Streak, but during

interviews to promote the show (which was soon taken off the air) he was confronted by the same tedious preoccupations: presenters were more interested in the age difference between him and his wife.

In his sixties, Forsyth appeared to go into overdrive, hosting, among other programmes, You Bet! for ITV (1988-90) and Bruce’s Price Is Right (ITV, 1995-2001), as well as a revived Generation Game on the BBC (1990-95). In 2000 he compèred Tonight at the London Palladium, based on the show’s original format.

In 1975 he was named the Variety Club Showbusiness Personality of the Year. He received a Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, and in 2013 was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the male television entertainer with the longest on-screen career, spanning 72 years.

He published an autobiography in 2001, followed in 2015 by Strictly Bruce, a further volume of memoirs.

He was appointed OBE in 1998, advanced to CBE in 2006, and knighted in 2011.

Forsyth presented Strictly Come Dancing well into his eighties; it was said that he kept fit thanks to a daily half-hour regime of Tibetan stretches and a flask of Complan which he kept backstage. In 2015 he underwent keyhole surgery after doctors discovered he had two aneurysms following a fall at his home.

After 2015, Forsyth made no further public appearances, as his health began to decline, with his wife commenting that he struggled to move easily following his surgery. On 26 February 2017, he was again admitted to hospital with a severe chest infection and spent five days in intensive care, before returning home on 3 March 2017. On 18 August 2017, Forsyth died of bronchial pneumonia at his Wentworth Estate home in Virginia Water, aged 89.

(Edited mainly from The Telegraph)

David Ackles born 20 February 1937

David Thomas Ackles (February 20, 1937 – March 2, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and child actor. He recorded four albums between 1968 and 1973.

Born into a show-business family, David Thomas Ackles became involved in performance at an early age. He started out in vaudeville as young as four, and then took the role of Tuck Worden in four Rusty films for Columbia Pictures (My Dog Rusty, 1948; Rusty Leads the Way, 1948; Rusty's Birthday, 1949; Rusty Saves a Life, 1949).

Having studied English literature at Edinburgh University, Ackles took a degree in Film Studies at the University of Southern California before working in musical comedy, theatre, film and scriptwriting for television. By the late Sixties, he was writing songs that were of great delicacy and Elektra, on the basis of his "Blue Ribbons", employed him as a songwriter.

On August 25th 1970 at the Troubadour in Hollywood, Elton John was being introduced to the world. 

He was scheduled to be the opening act for a man named David Ackles. But a record exec switched the order and Ackles opened for John, which he did without a murmur.

His persuasiveness led to a more elaborate contract, which resulted in three highly praised albums - David Ackles (1969, later reissued as Road to Cairo), Subway to the Country (1970), American Gothic (1972). Ackles had a richly textured, but unusual, voice for rock music. Whilst he had a tender approach to ballads, the vocal tone could develop into an angry rasp or a scornful snarl, depending on the subject matter.

                                

He shared with Harry Chapin and Randy Newman the ability to write in character and to construct stories around an individual. He was the prisoner returning home to find his love had not waited for him ("Down River") and the drifter who couldn't face returning to

his family ("Road to Cairo"). But he drew the line at singing in the first person about the wounded soldier who sought to damage children's minds by slipping them pornography ("Candy Man").

Many of Ackles's songs related to the downtrodden or to those who had created difficult situations for themselves. His music ranged from simple melodies to complex arrangements that could have come from the pen of Bernstein or Gershwin.

His first album used the Elektra house band, yet his arrangements brought the best out of his musicians. Not for him the bass player who plodded along to keep the beat - instead, the bass line was often a counterpoint to the main theme. By the third album, Ackles was using a full orchestra and his arrangements showed a grasp of a wide range of musical styles.

The title track of American Gothic said in four minutes what it took David Lynch a complete television series to describe. He then went on to produce a series of vignettes that summed up life in his home country in the late 20th century. Interestingly, the album was made from the perspective of living in England.

Despite critical acclaim, his unusual voice and eclectic style were not to the taste of the general public. Something of an artist's artist, Ackles had a number of songs covered by others; and, although he reached a critical apogee with American Gothic, he was dropped by Elektra.

A switch to Columbia for his fourth album, D.T. Ackles: Five & Dime (1973), didn't assist his musical career. Perhaps Columbia was looking to promote him as another Leonard Cohen, but the result was a good album that few people bought. The contract was terminated and nothing more was heard of David Ackles until Elektra re-released their three albums on CD in the mid-Nineties.

His career in popular music cut short, Ackles returned to writing television scripts, along with work on ballet scores and some lecturing on commercial songwriting. In 1981, a drunk driver rammed his car and his arm was badly damaged. A steel hip meant he spent six months in a wheelchair. It took years before he was able to return to the piano.

Ackles completed the score for a musical about Aimee Semple McPherson, Sister Aimee, in the early Nineties. He settled on a six-acre horse farm near Los Angeles and worked as a professor of theatre for USC. He was involved in student theatre production and had a success with Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera in 1997. A practising Christian, Ackles had a strong commitment to help others, both directly and through his writing.

Ackles died of lung cancer on March 2, 1999, in Tujunga, California at the age of 62. 

(Edited mainly from obit by Brian Mathieson @ The Independent)

Here’s some very rare footage of the singer-songwriter, made for Norwegian TV in 1968.  Four songs and an interview:- 0:00 Down River; 3:31 The Lotus Man; 6:02 Blue Ribbons; 9:58 interview; 12:32 His Name is Andrew.  Ackles was an acclaimed and influential songwriter, influencing Elton John, Elvis Costello and many others. His 'Road to Cairo' was covered by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger, and he was also covered by Elton John, Elvis Costello, The Hollies, Spooky Tooth, Howard Jones and Martin Carthy.

Bernie Taupin said of Ackles's style: "There was nothing quite like it. It's been said so many times, but his stuff was sort of [like] Brecht and Weill, and theatrical. It was very different than what the other singer-songwriters of the time were doing. There was also a darkness to it, which I really, really loved, because that was the kind of material that I was drawn to." Taupin went on to produce his 'American Gothic' album.  Broadcast December 20 1968. These songs were on his first, eponymous album from 1968.

Dutch Mason born 19 February 1938

Dutch Mason, CM (19 February 1938 – 23 December 2006) was a Canadian musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known as “Prime Minister of the Blues” was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2005.

Ronnie Banks & Dutch circa 1961

Norman Byron Mason was born 19 Feb, 1938 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to professional musician parents. His father played stand-up bass and drums and mother played piano. Moved with his family at the age of 11 to Kentville where they called him Dutchie because of his strong south-shore accent. At the age of 14 he started playing drums in a dixieland band with his parents. At 16 learned to play guitar while hanging out with the Black guys in the community of Gibson Woods. 

His heroes were Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. First band was called the Wreckers followed by Dutch Mason and the Esquires. He went on the road at 19 playing dance halls around the Maritimes. Forgot about rock and roll after hearing "Sweet Little Angel” by B.B. King and knew from this point on he wanted to play the Blues.

As he began to become known as a blues artist in the sixties, he started to tour various parts of Canada. In 1970 Dutch recorded his first album entitled “At The Candlelight”. The album was actually recorded at Bicentennial Junior High School one Sunday morning in about 4-5 hours. The band was paid a bucket of chicken and two quarts of bootleg rum to record the album.

In 1973 became the house band at the Wyse Owl Tavern in Dartmouth, N.S., where they stayed for 13 months before moving to Toronto. Returned home in 1978 and recorded two albums for Attic Records. In the early 80’s Dutchie had to leave the guitar playing to others due to arthritis and diabetes. He took nearly a ten 

year break from recording. Was appointed the title “Prime Minister Of The Blues” by his hero B.B. King at a King concert in Toronto that Dutchie attended.

1990 saw Dutch return to the recording studio to record his first record for Stony Plain, logically titled “I’m Back!”. The album utilized musicians from the Johnny Winter Band, Downchild Blues Band and others.

In 1991 Dutch performed on the Juno Award-winning disc, “Saturday Night Blues: The Great Canadian Blues Project Volume 1” was a joint WEA/Stony Plains/CBC Variety project, based around the CBC Radio show, “Saturday Night Blues”. Amongst the 20 blues artists on this disc was also the Drew Nelson Band with whom Dutch recorded “You Can’t Have Everything” in May-July 1992. 

                  Here's "I Must Be Crazy" from above album.

                                   

The album consisted of several Drew Nelson songs as well as some cover versions. That same year, Dutch won the first annual “Great Canadian Blues Award” by listeners of the CBC show.

A 1996 release “Appearing Nightly” contain tracks that were recorded in 1980 when Dutch still played guitar. His style and feel on guitar was influential on several Nova Scotian guitar players. Dutchie has always preferred to play in bars where he is closer to the people than in concert halls or arenas.

For Dutchie’s 60th birthday concert promoter Brookes Diamond gathered together fellow musicians Sam Moon, Joe Murphy, Theresa Malenfant, Rick Jeffrey, Frank MacKay and the Lincolns, Matt Minglewood, Pam Marsh, Johnny Favourite, Bucky Adams and son Anthony, Doris Mason, Bill Stevenson, Carson Downey and Big City at the Halifax Metro Centre and recorded a tribute to Dutchie CD that was released the following year.

Mason was nominated for Best Blues Album at the 1994 Juno Awards and Half Ain't Been Told (2004), earned him a nomination for Best Blues Album at the 2005 East Coast Music Awards. Mason was one of the original inductees to the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame, and in 2005, Mason became a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2005 Dutch Mason's son, Garrett Mason, earned a Juno Award for Best Blues album.

Dutch has received several awards including the first East Coast Music Awards lifetime achievement award, a Juno award, CBC Radio’s Saturday Night Blues Award and has an award named after him at the Harvest Blues Festival in Fredericton.

Dutch passed away in his sleep on 23 Dec/2006 at the age of 68. At the time of his passing, Dutch lived in Truro, Nova Scotia and still did occasional gigs although he was confined to a wheelchair.

 (Edited from various sources)