{"id":20954,"date":"2014-04-14T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=20954"},"modified":"2014-04-14T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:59:51","slug":"the-world-lost-one-of-its-best-songwriters-rip-jesse-winchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-04\/the-world-lost-one-of-its-best-songwriters-rip-jesse-winchester\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Has Lost One of It’s Best Songwriters–RIP Jesse Winchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We received the sad, sad news over the weekend that the great singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester<\/strong> passed away last Friday after a valiant fight against esophageal cancer.\u00a0 Winchester<\/strong> was a songwriter’s songwriter (lauded by Bob Dylan, Janis Ian<\/strong> and the who’s-who of songwriting) wrote some of the best songs of our day (Yankee Lady, The Brand New Tennessee Waltz, Mississippi, You’re on My Mind, A Showman’s Life<\/strong><\/em>, and Biloxi<\/strong><\/em>, amongst them, each covered by many an artist).\u00a0 But Winchester could also deliver those seminal songs with understated grace and nuance.\u00a0 He will be sorely missed.\u00a0 One of the earliest vignettes we put up on these pages (in April 2010) was an homage to Winchester’s<\/strong> beautiful, dehydrating delivery of his love song Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding<\/em><\/strong> on Elvis Costello\u2019s<\/strong> much-lamented Spectacle<\/strong><\/em> show.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 And now pardon us while we join Neko Case<\/strong> in honoring Jesse Winchester<\/strong>.\u00a0 We’ll see you on the other side Jesse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0 Mac McAnally<\/p>\n