RIP Tim Drummond

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 12 Jan 2015 7:32 am

From Joe Henry's Facebook page:

very sad this hour to learn of the passing of my old and dear friend, the great bassist tim drummond. his sprawl was immense, having played with a diversity of seminal artists --from james brown to conway twitty, through to ry cooder and neil young, and in the latter pair's most significant periods. as well, he gave up and held down gospel's supreme and funky authority in service to bob dylan, when gospel was the scrambling poet's preferred delivery system.
tim was the bassist on my own second album, "murder of crows" in 1988, and did in that moment what no musician i had long admired had yet done: he treated me like a peer. and it changed me.
rest easy, timmy. put on those fur slippers and glide.

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 13 Jan 2015 5:49 am

Here's some footage of Tim Drummond on the Lonnie Mack band live at Carnegie Hall 1985 w/ Stan Szelest on piano and Dennis O'Neil on drums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgYzSTiXgcE

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 13 Jan 2015 6:23 am

How fitting, Robert! Him together with Lonnie Mack.

RIP Tim Drummond.

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 25 Jan 2015 3:50 pm

Tim was a wonderful guy and an amazing bassist. He had his share of problems unfortunately, but I loved playing with/talking to him. Sad indeed.

Freddie Wooton · Post by **Freddie Wooton** » 1 Feb 2015 3:12 am

When I first met Tim he was with Lonnie Mack at the Half Way House in Hamilton,O somewhere around 1966-67.