Yes, sad news, what a talent.
We sang some of his repertoire at our local session on Tuesday.
If you look at the credits on some of his CDs he played just about every instrument himself.
I was also at Keith in 2007, when he was having to use the words in front of him, but still managed to joke about getting lost in them: as Drumshanty says, it was all very moving.
His "acceptance speech" in the Scottish Trad Awards a couple of years before was hilarious: he said nothing, was nearly off the stage, then the presenter asked him if he had something to say. Without even returning to the mike, he just said "No afore time"!