R.I.P. Barry Beckett

My coworker, friend, and longtime Muscle Shoals music lover, David Griner, wrote an inspiring post honoring the life of the recently departed Alabama legend, Barry Beckett.

You can find it here.

The NY Times documented the news here and had this to say:

Barry Beckett, an Alabama-born keyboardist who helped create the distinctly Southern amalgamation of rhythm and blues, soul and country that became known as the Muscle Shoals sound, and who as a producer recorded a wide range of music with Bob Dylan, Kenny Chesney, Bob Seger, Dire Straits and others, died on Wednesday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., north of Nashville. He was 66.