Remembering Merl Saunders
02/14 Great American/SF

By: Joy Bashew Rosenberg Remembering Merl Saunders February 14, 1934 - October 24, 2008 Merl Saunders by Bob Minkin I never saw organ and keyboard player Merl Saunders perform live, but I remember the first time I heard him on a clock radio in my suburban New Jersey bedroom, during a Philadelphia-broadcast "Grateful Dead Hour" in 1997. Cushioned between an Ominous Seapods tune and a snippet of an electronic tornado from a crazy new band called the Disco Biscuits, was the funkiest vers...

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