An odd thought struck me this morning, while listening to a Bill Morrissey track

on my iPod, while driving to work ("Just Before We Lost The War") - something made me wonder whether Morrissey had died. I can't think of any reason why I'd have wondered that; but I haven't been listening to much news lately other than major headlines on the All Classical station (99.5 All Classical) so ...

So. So for some reason it was still in my mind when I got to work and got the laptop all connected up, so I browsed Wikipedia - mostly to see what they had to say about Morrissey, and WHAM there it was, poor guy died last month (July 23, 2011 to be exact, in some backwater-sounding place in Georgia). He was 59, and died of heart disease (it says). A sad but very talented man, Bill Morrissey. I liked his music very much; saw him at the Stone Church in Newmarket, NH a few years ago. He was not in top form, but was game & ready to give it a go. Came out on stage and the first words out of his mouth were "I'm home!" He forgot some of the words to "Barstow" and he seemed more agitated than necessary when his pal Cormac McCarthy (not the writer, the other one) was a bit delayed in joining him onstage. His set was brief, but he ended with a nice rendition of "Don't Think Twice."