Covered In Folk: Pink Floyd R.I.P. keyboardist Richard Wright, 1943-2008
Sep 16, 2008, 9:20pm
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I had a singer-songwriter feature half-written for this evening, but the passage of Pink Floyd cofounder and keyboardist Richard Wright earlier this week reminded me that I've been sitting on a covers playlist for quite some time. Wright spent much of his career as third fiddle to two powerful songwriters (and, previous to that, one additional stellar frontman), but he deserves his due: his work was hardly negligible, and he did his share of songcraft, too, on some of the best known albums from the band. Presciently, Wright's most famous [...]
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