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Mark Heard
On Friday, August 16, 2002, some 35,000 fans from across the world gathered in Memphis, Tenn., to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Aaron Presley. The following night, Pierce Pettis reminded a much smaller crowd at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Ga. (some 390 miles southeast) that Friday was also the 10th anniversary of singer-songwriter Mark Heard’s death. “Mark would have loved that he died on the same day as Elvis,” he added with a chuckle. Outside of Pettis’ covers, most of the crowd knew of neither the prolific and stellar work of Heard nor his perverse sense... read more
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