passings
Lenny LeBlanc that released the album “Midnight Light.”
On a personal note, I was honored to have
Pete play on two of my albums recorded in Huntsville, Alabama with Ray Brand and the Crawlers, Southern Lights and Something Heavy. Carr’s guitar style always stood out from the rest. He was truly a one of a kind guitarist, ranking in the same category as his friend Duane Allman. He was also one heck of a nice guy. He will be greatly missed.
-Michael Buffalo Smith
Pete Carr Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section guitarist
Pete Carr, who played on hits including Bob Seger’s “Main Street,” Paul Simon’s “Ko- dachrome,” and Rod Stewart’s “Tonight’s the Night” died on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at the age of 70. In our upcoming book, Fix it in the Mix,
Paul Hornsby told the story of how Carr moved from Florida to Alabama in 1966 to play guitar with Hornsby and Johnny Sandlin in a band called The Five Minutes, replacing Eddie Hinton, who had left that band to pursue studio work. That band later combined efforts with the Allman Joys’ Gregg and Duane Allman to form Hour Glass, recording a pair on albums for Liberty Records and playing gigs at the Fillmore, the Whiskey a Go Go and many other notable venues, often playing shows with Janis Joplin, the Doors and others. As the lead guitarist for the Muscle Shoals
session band Carr would play with Bob Seger, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr., among others. He was guitarist in the historic Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park in New York for half a million fans. Carr worked with Phil Walden in Macon on the then- new recording label Capricorn. And recorde sev- eral guitar albums, including Not a Word On it, and had his own group LeBlanc and Carr, with
Brian Howe
Brian Howe, who replaced Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company, died on Wednes- day, May 6, 2020 at his home in Florida. Howe, who was also a songwriter, handled most of the writing for the album, "Holy Water," in 1990. The album made the Top 40 and attained platinum status. It was the most successful album for the group, and featured by the hit song, "If You Needed Somebody." The group's last album with Howe was in 1992, "Here Comes Trouble." The album went gold with a Top 40 hit, "How About That." Howe left the group in 1994. Howe went on to have a solo career, but it never reached the level of Bad Company. Howe was 66.
-Michael Buffalo Smith
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