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Died peacefully at home so the reports go but at the same time had an imminent tour with Karla Bonoff.
Credited with co writing quite a few Eagles hits but I always liked Out To Sea off the first album best.
JD Souther
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/eagles-hitmaker-jd-souther-dies-33694136
Great songwriter but seemingly lacking that special something needed to cut it as a performer.
Interesting discussion of the man over on the late, lamented Isle O’Foam…
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/01/country-rock-stiffened-marmoset-pelts.html#comment-form
(TL;DR – Separate the art from the artist – it’s your choice)
Was he a scuzzball or something? Does this mean the only reason I can dig out my rarely played copy of the Souther Hillman Furay Band will be to chuck it on the fire
Judee Sill wrote Jesus Was A Crossmaker about him after their ill-fated relationship, so he maybe wasn’t an all round nice guy, but very few men in the Eagles gang of friends were the best in that regard.
There were a lot of very entitled drink & drug-addled pop and rock stars behaving atrociously in the ’70s. I think he may well have been one of them.
I think Timothy B. Schmit and Randy Meisner were ‘nice’ guys
I would also like to think that Jackson Browne was too but I think Daryl Hannah might not agree with me.
He was good in “Nashville”.
I seem to recall in Barney Hoskyns seminal work on the Laurel Canyon scene ‘Hotel California’ that JD came across as both very arrogant and also not a particularly nice chap especially whenever there was a female in the vicinity. He’s written a few good and the odd excellent song but he’s very much Championship level IMHO.