Terence McArdle, Author at Valley News

This undated photo provided by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum shows Reggie Young. Young, a Memphis- and Nashville-based session player whose signature licks defined hit records from Elvis, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and many more, has died. He was 82. Friend and fellow Nashville Cats session musician David Briggs said Young died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 at his home in Nashville, Tenn. (Country Music Hall of Fame via AP)

Reggie Young, Recorded With Elvis, Dies at 82

by Terence McArdle The Washington PostJanuary 26, 2019

Reggie Young, a versatile and prolific guitarist who recorded with Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Dusty Springfield and brought a distinctly Southern flair to a vast range of pop music, died on Jan. 17 at his home in Leiper’s Fork near Franklin,…

Chicago blues musician Eddy Clearwater at his home in Skokie on Friday, May 26, 2011. (Zbigniew Bzdak/ Chicago Tribune) B581300530Z.1 ....OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION...

Guitarist Eddy Clearwater, Boisterous Bluesman, Dies at 83

by Terence McArdle The Washington PostJune 9, 2018

Pete Kuykendall, 79; Had Vast Impact on Bluegrass Music

by Terence McArdle The Washington PostSeptember 3, 2017

FILE - In this April 4, 1980 file photo, guitarist and singer Chuck Berry performs his "duck walk" as he plays his guitar on stage. On Saturday, March 18, 2017, police in Missouri said Berry has died at the age of 90. (AP Photo)

Chuck Berry, Who Helped Define Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 90

by Terence McArdle The Washington PostMarch 19, 2017

File-This This March 11, 2011, file photo shows Ralph Stanley backstage at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. Appalachian music patriarch Stanley, who helped expand and popularize the bluegrass sound, has died. He was 89. His publicist, Kirt Webster, says Stanley died Thursday, June 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ed Rode, File)

Bluegrass Master and Longtime Bandleader Ralph Stanley Dies

by Terence McArdle Washington PostJune 25, 2016

FILE - In this May 28, 2003 file photo, country music legend Merle Haggard smiles during a news conference at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington where he and his sister Lillian Haggard Hoge donated belongings taken on their family's Dust Bowl-era move from Oklahoma to California on Route 66. Haggard died of pneumonia, Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Palo Cedro, Calif. He was 79. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Musician Merle Haggard Dies

by Terence McArdle The Washington PostApril 7, 2016