Hail & farewell "Swamper" Barry Beckett

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"As a studio musician in the 1960s, Mr. Beckett played in the band affiliated with Fame Studios, the production house that turned an unlikely Southern town, Muscle Shoals, Ala., into a center of indigenous American popular music. The band, known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and also called the Swampers, split from Fame in 1969 and, helped by the producer Jerry Wexler, created its own studio, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, in nearby Sheffield. "

Complications from a stroke . .. He was 66.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/ar...html?ref=music

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Barry Beckett was an Alabama Alum. He mentions playing on "Smoke From A Distant Fire" by Sanford Townsend Band. Johnny Townsend is also an Alabama Alum and so is John Wyker "Sail Cat" who had the one hit wonder "Motorcycle Mama". We are all close to the same age.