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Subject: Obit: Amos died today From: GUEST,Jacqui.c Date: 14 Mar 19 - 08:53 PM We heard the sad news this evening that our dear friend, Amos Jessup, died peacefully in his sleep this afternoon. His son, Tucker, has asked me to post this just to let all his friends know. Tucker has told me that he will keep us up to date with any news. Both Kendall and I loved Amos and his loss has hit hard here. Dani and Janie are supporting Daly and Tucker right now. RIP Amos, my dear friend. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Mar 19 - 09:22 PM Thank you for letting us know. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today From: Tattie Bogle Date: 14 Mar 19 - 09:39 PM Sorry to hear that. My condolences to his family. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today From: Rapparee Date: 14 Mar 19 - 09:40 PM Ohmygod! |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: ChanteyLass Date: 14 Mar 19 - 09:46 PM Oh, no! Another 'Catter I'll never get to meet. My condolences to everyone who knew and loved him. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: Steve Shaw Date: 14 Mar 19 - 09:59 PM All my good wishes to his family and friends. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: Joe Offer Date: 14 Mar 19 - 10:10 PM Amos and LEJ and I made an annual trip to Hillsborough, North Carolina, for many years. I won't lie - it was because of the wonderful women who lived there. And I suppose we all watched over each other to make sure we didn't behave inappropriately. And then Amos upset the balance and moved to Hillsborough with his wife Daly, and we grew to love her, too. I started spending significant time with Amos back in about 2005, when Kendall came here to Northern California to do a concert with Utah Phillips - and Amos drove all the way up here from San Diego for the concert. I've seen him every years at the Getaway in DC since Lord knows when, and then I had more time with him when we started making our annual pilgrimage to Hillsborough - so we'd spend a week or more together making music and conversation, and not just the 3-day Getaway. Along the way, Amos became a significant and beloved person in my life. I'll miss him. -Joe- Abby, Dani, Amos, and Joe at the Library of Congress in September, 2014. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156930964683260&l=6d83688730 |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: rich-joy Date: 14 Mar 19 - 10:27 PM Vale, Amos. There will be So many who will miss So much about you. Maybe we'll actually meet, in another Lifetime (sure hope so).... Cheers, mate, from Down Under. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: gnu Date: 14 Mar 19 - 10:27 PM I just talked to him by phone two days ago. He sounded good... tired.. but good. This is a terrible shock. One of the finest persons I have ever known. RIP, buddy. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos died today - 14 March 2019 From: gnu Date: 14 Mar 19 - 10:46 PM He visited with a cousin on their way east of me. Spent the night. We drank and dined and Amos played the geetar constantly. It was lovely. Even though I had far to much to drink, I couldn't sleep after they went to bed. I was just jazzed up by the GREAT evening of music and art and conversation... amazing. Amos was bedded in a nice bed in my basement with an adjoining washroom. I searched You Tube and found one of my favourite tunes by him. I played it. Next thing I know, Amos was at my office door. You see, my speakers are on the floor and he was in the basement bedroom so the music/resonance was loud down there. He was kinda cranky about it. I apologized profusely. He was still kinda cranky. Hehehhee. What a gem of a human. Here is the tune... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-veXnXNRgc |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Mar 19 - 10:56 PM I'll gently rise and softly call Good night and joy be with you all gnu, after reading your note about calling I was planning to do so during the day this week. Now I'll have to send my good wishes to Amos through contemplation and listening to his music. This is a huge blow to the musical members, and elsewhere to the serious, the silly, the political, the intellectual communities here at Mudcat. Here is the earlier discussion when he was ill - it includes links to a lot of his work. So very sad. Maggie |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 19 - 11:02 PM Sad news , I just heard R.I.P my friend. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Stewie Date: 14 Mar 19 - 11:31 PM I join my good mate, rich-joy, with another vale from down under. I always read Amos's posts. A sad loss to this community. A gentleman in the very best sense of that word. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Little Hawk Date: 15 Mar 19 - 12:40 AM Amos was...is...one of the best people I ever got to know through the Internet. We never met face to face, but we spoke on the phone a couple of times. I hope we meet again in some other life or on the other side of this one, if it works that way. He was a true gentleman and a very gifted man in may ways. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Helen Date: 15 Mar 19 - 12:54 AM I have to say I am in shock. I read the other thread just yesterday and the news seemed to be that Amos was getting better but now, today, I have found out he is gone. I only "met" Amos on Mudcat but as I said on the other thread he has been one of my favourite 'Catters right from the start. Another good one gone. My sincerest condolences to his family and friends. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 15 Mar 19 - 03:38 AM Really sorry to hear this. I was only reading his illness thread the other day and was happy that he seemed to be getting better. Condolonces to his family and friends. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Monique Date: 15 Mar 19 - 03:44 AM Such a sad news! Mudcat looks like a daisy someone's plucking and another fine petal has gone. RIP Amos. My condolences to all who loved him. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,Teribus Date: 15 Mar 19 - 04:09 AM Very sorry to hear this news, especially after reading that he appeared to doing so well. My sincere condolences to his family and his friends. Without doubt a man who will be greatly missed. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: fat B****rd Date: 15 Mar 19 - 04:19 AM RIP Amos. MY condolences and best thoughts to his family and friends. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: David C. Carter Date: 15 Mar 19 - 04:52 AM This is terrible news. He was one of several people who welcomed me to the Mudcat back in 2005. I won't forget that. RIP |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,Andymac Date: 15 Mar 19 - 05:06 AM Oh no. I was just reading yesterday that he appeared to be getting stronger again and now the worst news of all. He leaves behind a huge gap but a lot of good memories too. My condolences to his family. RIP. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 15 Mar 19 - 05:09 AM We only ever "spoke" via e-mail but I loved his music and his humour. Our private joke when he was working on the Blue Plate Mudcat CDs was that, as I can't sing or play, I donated the silences between the tracks. He'll be much missed here and in his community. RIP, old buddy. Condolences to his family. RtS |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Mar 19 - 05:12 AM Oh shit. At least I got to meet the great man at a Getaway, where he played and sang, almost non stop. I was his Secret Santa one year too. So sorry to hear he has passed, especially after the news seemed so hopeful Journey on Amos. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,akenaton Date: 15 Mar 19 - 07:50 AM Peace Amos. Very sorry to hear this sad news. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Alice Date: 15 Mar 19 - 08:28 AM Tucker and family, my deep sympathy to you at this time. Alice in Montana |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Rapparee Date: 15 Mar 19 - 09:18 AM In shock, will say more later (if possible). |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Jeri Date: 15 Mar 19 - 09:22 AM I've come to think of death as... well, we all get to play in the pool, or in the session, or whatever, but at some point, we have to leave. The person doing the leaving just stops. Goes to sleep and doesn't wake up. The people left behind are the ones to feel the loss--the tearing pain and the "phantom limb" sensation. Still there, somewhere. Amos was such a huge part of Mudcat during what I think of as our "heyday". Before it was mostly a place for British people to fight about British politics. We were Americans (and Germans, and Irish and Icelanders, and Canadians, and...etc) who fought about American politics. Or the best recipe for chile. The soaring imagination of the Tavern threads or the inspiration of "a flea,an orange,a bicycle seat" made Mudcat seem like a wonderland of brilliant minds and crazy ideas. We played, not fought. There are fewer people who remember those times now. And the light that was Amos, that shone on far more than only Mudcat, is darkened. Go well, you good man. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Leadfingers Date: 15 Mar 19 - 10:00 AM So sorry to hear this sad news ! I will always have fond memories of Amos at all the Getaways I got to , and the excellence of his playing in the sessions in 'Peace' |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 15 Mar 19 - 10:28 AM I'm devastated. The last news in his "ill" thread that I saw seemed to raise some hopes. But it sounds as though at least he was in good spirits at the end. What an unfillable hole he leaves behind him. I have no idea whether there really is an "up there" or not, but I like to daydream about Amos and John In Kansas debating the relative merits of Apple & Windows. Oh how I miss them. Rest in peace. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,GUEST: Kathy Westra (KathWestra) Date: 15 Mar 19 - 10:32 AM My heart hurts. The report seemed so positive and full of hope just yesterday. Farewell, dear Amos. You made the words "love till you've loved it away" mean something. Condolences to Daly, Tucker, and all the friends you made along the way. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,Bradfordian Date: 15 Mar 19 - 11:07 AM RIP Amos. Thanks for your wonderful contribution to the folk music world, especially here at Mudcat. You couldn’t meet a nicer guy. Bradfordian. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: meself Date: 15 Mar 19 - 11:24 AM I knew Amos only through his posts here, but had a real respect for him on that basis. RIP. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: kendall Date: 15 Mar 19 - 11:52 AM Amos was one of those rare people to whom I was drawn almost immediately. we became solid friends right off the bat. I'm heart broken to lose this great man. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Bill D Date: 15 Mar 19 - 11:53 AM Amos stayed here a few days after his visit with gnu... we took him to the local guitar store, fed him Rita's spaghetti, debated Life, the Universe and Everything. Here on Mudcat, Amos & I debated, argued, teased each other and speculated (sometimes genteely, sometimes pointedly) about whether the **mind** existed apart from the body. He ragged me about being locked into the idea of "meat space", and I asked him pointed questions about the metaphysics of 'consciousness apart from physical being'.... I guess now HE knows the answer... one way or the other. If HE was right, I expect to hear from him soon... I'm waiting. ????? so long, buddy... |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Donuel Date: 15 Mar 19 - 11:57 AM Amos will always be a wonderful and wonderous author. His passionate commitment to generosity, love, personal attention and performance are now legendary for the ages. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: voyager Date: 15 Mar 19 - 12:01 PM I had several encounters with Amos at the FSGW getaway programs. He was an inspiring performer in those days and his songbook was vast. Hobo's Lullaby - Amos Jessup Thank you for your live in music voyager |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Dorothy Parshall Date: 15 Mar 19 - 12:03 PM Just: OH, WOW! |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: CupOfTea Date: 15 Mar 19 - 01:18 PM Another of the wonderful names from Mudcat gone. I only admired him from a distance, but did get to see him having a grand time at a couple of Getaways, and see the person who was the name. It is easy to see how big a hole his absence will be in many lives, though it looks like he had the distinct advantage of friends who dont hold back on saying how valued their friends are during their lifetimes. I hope that thought is some balm for the grief. Joanne in Cleveland |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: michaelr Date: 15 Mar 19 - 01:27 PM So sad about this news. Although we're in the same state, we never met, but we had some communications over the years. A great guy by all accounts. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: keberoxu Date: 15 Mar 19 - 01:31 PM My sympathies are to those whom Amos leaves behind, who knew him well and who miss him. For Amos I feel relief, actually. He plainly did not like being incapacitated, and was impatient to experience a liberation from all the disabilities. So now Amos has discarded all the aging, poorly functioning mechanisms and is flying high and free. And just think how many other Mudcatters are on the other side to give him a hero's welcome. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: RolyH Date: 15 Mar 19 - 02:25 PM RIP Amos |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: bbc Date: 15 Mar 19 - 02:36 PM Sad news. Rest in peace, Amos! bbc |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Joe_F Date: 15 Mar 19 - 03:36 PM He said kind things about my poems. He sent me his CD. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: frogprince Date: 15 Mar 19 - 05:37 PM My condolences to the family, and to those "here" to whom he was effectively family. We've lost another of the best. Dean |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Janie Date: 15 Mar 19 - 06:45 PM Reeling, even more than I thought I would when I "thought" his time would come. I will say that as devastating as it is to have lost my dear friend so suddenly, I'm kind of grateful he did not endure the ravishing suffering that so many other of my family and friends have suffered during the lead up to dying from cancer. We will never know what killed him, but it probably was not directly or immediately related to either the cancer or the head injury. His primary care physician, on being described the brief symptoms he experienced in the several hours before he died, speculates it may have been an embolism. It also appears he died peacefully, in his sleep, while napping in his recliner. I hope this doesn't strike folks as macabre for me to share, because I think Amos would be quite pleased, or at least quite amused to learn that in death, he bore a remarkable resemblance to Merle Haggard. Amos was a good friend for a number years, and after he, Daly and Tucker moved here, we came to regard each other as family. I love all of them deeply. My favorite memories will be of suppers or lunches around Dani's, my, or the Jessup's table. Lively and fun and sometimes very serious conversations - always really open, fearless conversations - no need to hide behind a protective social mask of who we either think we should be, or who we believe others think we should be. Radical, loving acceptance of one another. Often the evening or afternoon ended with music. Icing on the cake. When at my house, nothing delights me more than to put food away and clean up the kitchen while listening to good friends and family swap songs or fiddle tunes. The music is what brought us together to begin with, but it was the deep and enduring friendship that mattered most. All of us fear the prospect of suffering during the process of dying. Some people fear death. Amos did not. Like Bill, I'm a bit skeptical about any 'afterlife', but who knows? I know there was a big part of Amos that had some conception of the death of this body as a stepping-off place to opportunities for other fine and creative adventures in consciousness. I'm going to miss and mourn Amos deeply and for a long time. So grateful to still have Daly and Tucker in my life. I've said too much and probably shared more personally than is appropriate. Selfishly, I needed to share this somewhere, and here on Mudcat feels safer than on Facebook. Thanks for listening. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Bill D Date: 15 Mar 19 - 07:13 PM Thank you, Janie... I actually envy you for the close bonds you developed being so near......... but I also am not sure I could have coped had *I* been down there. We all have our memories and thoughts, and I had good dose of Amosness for many years...including when he played "My Sweet Wyoming Home" when we sent katlaughing on her journey. Later, I will go play some of the recordings. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Little Hawk Date: 15 Mar 19 - 07:33 PM I can well appreciate that Amos did not fear death. He was a man with a lot of spiritual insight and a lot of depth of character. One thing I'm glad I did was that some years ago I ordered a copy of his book "Beyond the Cascade". It's a wonderfully imaginative story with much to say about that great big subject: "the meaning of life". I've read it twice now, and will probably read it again. Amos is amusingly described in the blurb about the author as: "A. H. Jessup is an American writer, engineer, pastor and general dogsbody from North Carolina. He has worked as a systems engineer, a sea captain, a commercial diver, a truck driver, a pastor, a miner, a lecturer and once sold encyclopedias. He lives in Hillsborough, near the River Eno, with the girl of his dreams, a handsome son, and the perfect dog." Marvelous! I trust those were his own words. (smile) It's such a wonderful book, and I totally recommend it to anyone who wants to read an intriguing adventure story combined with a fascinating and very idealistic look at what life may really be about. Amos remains vividly alive as far as I'm concerned. He is an unforgettable character, a great musician, a great writer, a great man. Beyond the Cascade |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: gnu Date: 15 Mar 19 - 07:45 PM Janie : "All of us fear the prospect of suffering during the process of dying. Some people fear death. Amos did not." Right on. He never feared death. He loved and LIVED life. Told me so. That was his goal... to live life to it's fullest until the end. He did it. I was lucky to have even met him. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: Rapparee Date: 15 Mar 19 - 09:16 PM In my copy of "Beyond the Cascade" Amos enclosed a note. It reads 16 July 2013 Dear Michael: Thank you so much for that nicely written letter. You did a good job. Here is the Book you requested. Please be very sure to look up all the words as you go along. It will make you even smarter. Regards & best wishes, A. H. Jessup I shan't include the scurrilous comments he made on the title page. (Gotta get my last licks in.) |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Amos Jessup - 14 March 2019 From: GUEST,paperback Date: 15 Mar 19 - 09:55 PM Rapparee, sorry you lost your compadre Bradley Kincaid - Steamboat Bill |
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