November 10
We remember prog-rock's majestic voice Greg Lake on his birthday today in 1948, the King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer bassist-vocalist whose powerful singing on "Lucky Man" and "From the Beginning" brought soul to progressive rock's complexity before his death from cancer in 2016… New Orleans lost its greatest musical architect on this day in 2015 when Allen Toussaint died at 77, ending the life of the songwriter-producer whose work with artists from Lee Dorsey to LaBelle helped define the Crescent City's funky R&B sound while his own "Southern Nights" became a standard… Counterculture lost its most colorful instigator on this date in 2001 when Ken Kesey died at 66, ending the life of the Merry Prankster whose Acid Tests with the Grateful Dead helped launch psychedelic culture and whose novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" made him a literary icon… We honor the memory of Atlanta Rhythm Sectio...
