RIP - Bill Morrissey

[KG]

Singer/songwriter and Tamworth resident Bill Morrissey has died at the age of 59. He was born in Hartford Connecticut on November 25, 1951 and died July 23, 2011 in Georgia.
Bill recorded 10 albums, received two Grammy nominations and four star reviews in
Rolling Stone Magazine, and received exceptional reviews in nearly every other major national publication. Stephen Holden, for the New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Morrissey's songs have the force of poetry...a terseness, precision of detail and a tone of laconic understatement that relate his lyrics to the fiction of writers like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford" He is also the author of the novel "Edson" (Random House/Alfred A. Knopf 1996) which was recently translated in French and the recently completed "Imaginary Runner."



http://www.nhpr.org/letters-heaven-bill-morrissey

[amerikat]

1. I saw him a couple perform a couple of time in the mid 90's

Great voice. He was good friend of Greg Brown. Greg did a song called fishin with Bill about
the two of them.


RIP Bill

[MrsBrady]

2. yes, I heard about this today...

met him once, very nice man

very sad, he was one of the greats.

He produced my favorite Ellis Paul album "Say Something". Very well done.