Who Is Killing The Great Blues Artists of America? (Part II)

Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, died September 23 in Fairfax, Virginia. The cause of death at 93 was not announced. Her versions of "Railroad Bill" and "One-Dime Blues" on the 1956 compilation album, "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians," influenced the growing folk music revival…

Henry "Mule" Townsend, who fled home for St. Louis as a boy and then stayed for a prolific career as a blues guitarist that spanned eight decades, died September 24 of pulmonary edema in Grafton, Wisconsin. He was 96. Townsend was being honored at a blues festival as the last surviving musician from the old Paramount Records…

In the first installment of our post-Katrina inquiry, we noted that they had Died in 3s. This doesn't bode well for one more living legend...