Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944-2014)

Subject: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: BK Lick
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 12:35 AM


Passings: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: bobad
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 07:54 AM

Very sad news.

Mike Regenstreif's tribute to Jesse: http://frfb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/jesse-winchester-1944-2014.html

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:06 AM

Take care old friend.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:10 AM

RIP Mr. Winchester.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:57 AM

This news is hard to take in. Gentle spirits such as his are rare things indeed but thank you Jesse, for all the music over all the years. "Be Good" he wrote in my autograph book when I saw him on, I think his only UK tour in Manchester, December 1986. It's up there now, framed on my study wall.
The world just got more cloudy today.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:58 AM

Please note that Jesse is still doin' a rhumba on this mortal coil although the dance will not go on much longer.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:03 AM

RIP and thanks.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:08 AM

30 minutes ago on Facebook:
"Dad hasn't passed yet, though he is calm and at peace."

Fair winds...

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:51 AM

I have no doubt he was at peace. That is who he was - and shall remain in my heart. But I am weepy sad, full of sorrow at my loss. Never again will we get to see him on stage - LIVE! and wonderful! So glad for the memory of last winter's performance in Montreal.

Oh my!

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944 - 2014)
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:55 AM

Mark Regenstrief writes

Subject: In Hospice: Jesse Winchester
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 11:50 AM

Mike, if you're reading, sometimes having a chance to say "goodbye" before someone's on the other side of a closed door is a good thing, but I'll take "Obit" out of the thread title.

Subject: RE: In Hospice: Jesse Winchester
From: Janie
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 09:07 PM

Definitely a good thing, Jeri. Thank you Mike.

Open hearts all around. Now.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 03:31 PM

Posted today on National Public Radio:

Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester dies

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: Janie
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 04:59 PM

His songs moved our souls. That's What Makes You Strong

Thank you, Mr. Winchester

My condolences to his family, Mike and all others who knew and loved him beyond his music.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 05:53 PM

A wonderful man, amazing songwriter, and mesmerizing performer. He'll be missed.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: BK Lick
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 06:00 PM

A lovely eulogy here.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 06:25 PM

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif: Jesse Winchester 1944-2014

Condolences to family and friends

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 08:43 PM

A friend of mine just sent me this email with a Jesse Winchester story I remember---when he played the Frostbite Music Festival (of which I was artistic director at the time) in the early 1980's.

"this is a story I remember, maybe not quite accurately, from-1982? Jesse Winchester had come up to Whitehorse, I think to play at Frostbite? He was very kind to T (daughter), and she still has a note he wrote to her from back then, when she was 8. I remember chauffeuring him around Whitehorse. At the end of the visit, either you or I said to him that it was too bad he didn't get a chance to see more of the Yukon, maybe go down to Carcross or something. He replied, "it's ok, really. You know, I hate scenery."

His songs are picturesque....but more at a visceral level than at a visually descriptive level.

Subject: RE: OBIT: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 12 Apr 14 - 04:31 AM

Bless you Jesse, and thank you again.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944-2014)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 01:02 PM

Here is the fighting cancer thread.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944-2014)
From: KT
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 08:30 PM

I never had the good fortune to meet this gentle man face to face, but I know through correspondence that both he and Cindy are wonderful, kind and gentle spirits. Rest in peace, Jesse.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKGWpqnS8E

Subject: RE: Obit: Jesse Winchester (1944-2014)
From: KT
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 08:50 PM

oops, here's a blue clicky