Hurts me...

Banjo player Doug Dillard, an influential bluegrass musician who played with many rock outfits, appeared on “The Andy Griffith Show" and with his family band the Dillards, died Wednesday in Nashville after a long illness, the group's longtime publisher Lynne Robin Green said Thursday. He was 75. (From the AP)

What in the Sam Hill is going on?

Donna Summer last week. Robin Gibb (we're now down to one solitary Bee Gee). Earl Scruggs a couple of months ago. Goober.

And now one of the Dillard boys. He's with the banjo, above, as one of the Darlin' Boys, as they were known on The Andy Griffith Show. The Dillard's standup bass stud (with pipe) died last year.

"We Shall Meet But We Shall Miss Him..." Sing it boys...

Sigh...Everybody hang in there...

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