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Fishing with Bill: Greg Brown

I thought this Greg Brown song perfect to celebrate Bill Morrissey‘s life and mourn his passing. Bill Morrissey passed away on July 23, 2011.

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5 Comments on “Fishing with Bill: Greg Brown”

  2. Rick Oztown's avatar Rick Oztown Says:

    July 26, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Well, that is just downright sad, Kat. He’d had some bad situations come up in the last few years. I’d heard the deterioration in his voice. But, I was hoping his vision would spur him to continue living much longer. And I knew he was recently back to touring.

    • Kat's avatar Kat Says:

      July 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm

      Rick,
      I felt the same way when I read the paper this morning. He had such an original voice and he never did make enough music to satisfy me.

  3. OMOT's avatar OMOT Says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    That is sad, Kat; I haven’t seen a paper today and hadn’t heard about this. I knew Bill many years ago when we both attended Plymouth State; we were pretty good friends for a few years–not real tight, but we both moved in the same circles and hung around together with the same group of people.

    I remember spending the night with Bill and half a dozen others something like 40 years ago, now, at a friend’s home up in Littleton, New Hampshire. Bill was trying to teach himself to play the banjo at the time–without much success, to that point–and we all spent the night playing music, drinking a good deal more than we had ought, and critiquing the vocal work of Leonard Cohen on the just-released “Songs of Love and Hate”. Funny the things that stick with you years later, huh?

    I lost touch with Bill years ago, but always followed his career in a sort or cursory way, and meant to look him up at his home in Tamworth “one of these days.” And we know how that goes …

    Bill was a nice guy, and talented. He was fighting a lot of demons, as I guess most of us are to one degree or another, but at the end of the day he was a nice guy–a good guy. He wrote and sang songs, played a pretty good guitar, told stories, and generally made people feel better for having come to see and hear him. A nice guy.

    As I said, I hadn’t seen him in years, but I’m going to miss having him around. This is a loss.

    OMOT

    • Kat's avatar Kat Says:

      July 27, 2011 at 9:35 pm

      OMOT,
      I knew he’d had his demons and was in a constant fight. I was really shocked when I read the obituary in the Globe. It was fairly extensive because, I guess, he was really a local of sorts. It is so much of a shame to lose talented musicians long before their times.

      I never think that stays with us is in any way odd or strange. I think we hold on to memories which touch us whether it’s because we had a great time with friends or we laughed a lot or even drank too much.

      I suspect all of us suffer from too many should haves.


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