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Friday, August 14, 2015
Don Kent
Music scholar, collector, researcher, label owner, and writer -- via Crowe Mortuary. AKA Mr. Mamalish. One of the "Blues Mafia" in New York in the 1960s, he was an expert in blues and bluegrass, amassing an enviable collection and churning out very good liner notes and other forms of musical scholarship.
