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The small town Tennesseean earned a top 5 pop hit in 1974 and later became a successful songwriter for others

The satirist, whose onetime band was called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue

He also co-wrote “Always on My Mind,” a #1 hit for Willie Nelson that won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The organist had been the last surviving original member of the American rock band

The bassist helped form the San Francisco pop rock band in 1993, remaining with them until 2003

Sanborn racked up numerous gold and platinum albums during his five-plus-decade career.

The influential Detroit band suffered two other losses in 2024

The musician had a long list of credits with some of the biggest acts of the late ’60s and well into the ’70s

Jeff Lynne called him his “long-time collaborator and dear friend,” adding, “He was a remarkable musician.”

His use of dramatic single-note melodies on the lower strings of his guitar, pronounced tremolo and vibrato, and liberal doses of echo