R.I.P. Charles Bradley

Read More Charles Bradley The Screaming Eagle of Soul sure does know how to drum up the excitement. Tuesday night at the Cedar Cultural Center, after excellent opener Paul and His Tall Trees exited the stage…

Like 2016, this year is ramping up to be a very bad year for musicians. rollingstone.com just announced that Charles Bradley is dead at the age of 68 to cancer.

Like most musicians who had a late start in success (after 42 years in the music industry as a James Brown impersonator before going solo with Daptone Records), Bradley made his living as a live musician. In fact, he was actually in the middle of his 2017 tour (due to be in Minnesota on September 28, 2017, at the Fitzgerald Theater), when the unexpected news of his death came.

In the soul revival genre, we recently saw the passing of Sonny Knight in June 2017, and Sharon Jones in November 2016.

Below are more deaths for the month of September - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.

September (28)

[23 Sep 2017] Charles Bradley (American soul singer), 68, liver cancer

[22 Sep 2017] Rick Shaw (American radio disc jockey of WQAM, brought The Beatles to South Florida), 79

[21 Sep 2017] Cees Bergman (Dutch singer of Catapult), 65

[19 Sep 2017] Johnny Sandlin (American record producer for The Allman Brothers Band), 72, cancer

[17 Sep 2017] Laudir de Oliveira (Brazilian musician for Sérgio Mendes, Chicago), 77

[16 Sep 2017] Brenda Lewis (American operatic soprano), 96

[15 Sep 2017] Harry Dean Stanton (American actor and musician), 91

[14 Sep 2017] Grant Hart (American musician for Husker Du), 56, cancer

[13 Sep 2017] Alla Tarán (Ukrainian violinist), 76

[12 Sep 2017] Jessi Zazu (American musician for Those Darlins), 28, cervical cancer

[12 Sep 2017] Siegfried Köhler (German conductor for Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Royal Swedish Opera), 94

[12 Sep 2017] Riem de Wolff (Dutch-Indonesian singer of The Blue Diamonds), 74

[11 Sep 2017] Virgil Howe (British drummer of Little Barrie), 41

[09 Sep 2017] Michael Friedman (American composer and lyricist for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), 41, complications from AIDS

[08 Sep 2017] Don Williams (American country musician), 78, illness

[08 Sep 2017] Troy Gentry (American country musician, part of Montgomery Gentry), 50, helicopter crash

[07 Sep 2017] Josh Schwartz (American singer-songwriter and guitarist for John Cale), 45, ALS

[06 Sep 2017] Derek Bourgeois (English composer), 75

[05 Sep 2017] Leo Cuypers (Dutch jazz pianist and composer), 69

[05 Sep 2017] Rick Stevens (American R&B singer of Tower of Power), 77, cancer

[05 Sep 2017] Holger Czukay (German musician, co-founder of Can), 79

[04 Sep 2017] Earl Lindo (Jamaican reggae musician), 64

[03 Sep 2017] John Byrne Cooke (American author and musician), 76, throat cancer

[03 Sep 2017] Dave Hlubek (American musician for Molly Hatchet), 66, heart attack

[03 Sep 2017] Walter Becker (American musician and songwriter; co-founder of Steely Dan), 67

[01 Sep 2017] Hedley Jones (Jamaican musician, audio engineer and inventor), 99

[01 Sep 2017] Mick Softley (British singer-songwriter and guitarist), 77

[01 Sep 2017] Novella Nelson (American actress and singer), 77

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