The LA Times:
Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as “Let It Rain” and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery, his wife Susan Lanier-Bramlett said.
Born in Mississippi in 1939, Bramlett came to Los Angeles in the 1960s and played guitar in the house band for the TV pop show “Shindig.”
With his then-wife Bonnie Lynn he formed the short-lived Southern blues-rock band Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. The band toured as the opening act for Blind Faith, the supergroup that featured British guitarist Clapton.
After Bramlett and his first wife divorced in the early ’70s, they parted professionally as well, and he faded from the spotlight.
I always wondered where that bit would ahve taken them had they stayed together. Here they are with Eric Clapton and someone who looks amazingly like Dave Mason. Interesting;Mason often covered Delaney’s stuff.
And yes, before you ask, the Black Crowes covered this one, also.
