The charming, roguish figure whose 2004 album East Nashville Skyline is essential to roots music, modeled himself after mentors like John Prine and Billy Joe Shaver
Musician Gilson Lavis has died. He was 74. Lavis, best known as the drummer for the British New Wave rock band Squeeze, died earlier this month on November 5. His death was announced by his former bandmate Jools Holland in an Instagram post. “I’m very sad to report that Gilson Lavis my dear...