Another rockabilly legend has died and I didn't even know it! Mac Curtis has been dead for two years and I discovered the news just a few minutes ago. I'm feeling rather sad now.
Here he is in 1957 with "Goosebumps"
one of my all time favourite rockabilly tracks:
Original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpcc9voUWh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpcc9voUWh4
And here he is fifty years later in 2007
singing "Say So" at a concert in Amsterdam
Original video here:
Pop Culture Blog
September 17, 2013
Fort Worth-born rockabilly great Mac Curtis, an early-days inductee into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, died Monday night in a Weatherford nursing home. His ex-wife and sister say it was sudden: Curtis, born Wesley Erwin Curtis Jr. on January 16, 1939, was injured in a car accident in Weatherford last month, and over the weekend he took a turn for the worse.http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/
“He went to the nursing home for rehab after the accident, and it turned out he had a subdural hematoma that kept growing and growing and ultimately burst,” says his sister, Cindy Winters of Granbury. “It was a shock. It was sudden. He was taken to the hospital after the accident, and they did a CAT scan and didn’t determine anything. All they can say is it must have been a tiny brain bleed that just grew and grew and grew.”
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