Drummers band together
After loss, Blackwell calls on his friends
In June, John Blackwell was flying. The funky, stick-twirling drummer for Prince's New Power Generation was dazzling audiences as part of the "Musicology" tour, which had been getting raves and selling out shows across the country. The band was in Chicago when the devastating news reached him: His 2-year-old daughter, Jia, had accidentally fallen into his family's swimming pool in ... (Full article: 1017 words)
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