We lost a lot of good musicians this year. Buddy Cage, who played pedal steel guitar for the New Riders of the Purple Sage, died on February 5 “of multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells.”

Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Charley Pride has died “of complications from Covid-19.” If no one ever made a “perfect song,” he sure got close:

Leslie West, co-founder, co-singer, and lead guitarist of Mountain, has died “from cardiac arrest.”