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Soul singer Freddie Hughes died last week from complications in part due to Covid-19. His pal Alec Palao fondly remembers the man with the high-reaching, eminently soulful voice.

Joe Simon died on 13^th December 2021, aged 85 years.

Joe Simon possessed one of the greatest Southern Soul voices heard throughout the golden age of the 60s & 70s soul music.

Remembered by Tony Rounce.

At the end of last week, a 99-year-old man died.

Quinton Claunch’s passing didn’t make the Friday lunchtime news, nor did it cause national networks to scrap their scheduled programming for the rest of the day, and broadcast hour after hour of tributes to his achievements.

Although it should have done.

News of Quinton’s death may have flown ‘under the radar’ - but as soon as it was announced, word quickly spread among a sad soul community that he had gone, and the subsequent tributes across soul’s social media have been many, and glowing.

Ace Records aficionados will very likely be familiar with the uniquely soulful guitar-playing which embellished such notable hits as Dobie Gray’s ‘Drift Away’ and Billy Swan’s ‘I Can Help’, as well as the ground-breaking use of electric sitar on the Box Tops’ ‘Cry Like A Baby’ and ‘Hooked On A Feeling’ by B.J. Thomas. Add to these Elvis Presley’s ‘In The Ghetto’ and ‘Suspicious Minds’, Dusty Springfield’s ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’, Joe Tex’s ‘Skinny Legs And All’, and many more significant chartbusters by the likes of Bill Black’s Combo, Joe Tex, Neil Diamond, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Jimmy Buffett, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard. Such an imposing list should provide an idea of the enormous contribution made over six decades by Memphis and Nashville’s most versatile and in-demand session guitarist, Reggie Young, who has died at the age of 82.

It is with much regret that I have to report the loss of Margaret Lewis, aka Maggie Warwick, a great champion of Louisiana music, who died on March 29.