Bassett dies
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DETROIT (USA TODAY) — Blues guitarist Johnnie Bassett, a much-loved statesman of the Detroit scene, died Saturday night. He was 76.

Bassett had been in declining health — recently diagnosed with cancer — and was moved last month to hospice care at St. John Hospital in Detroit.

In a long and storied career, the musically versatile Bassett had been a go-to player on Detroit's bustling club scene of the '50s and '60s, and was a member of the Fortune Records house band the Blue Notes.

He accompanied a litany of brand-name artists, including fellow Detroiters John Lee Hooker, Little Willie John, Smokey Robinson and Nolan Strong, and was friendly with a young Jimi Hendrix during the latter's early, blues-oriented Seattle years.

"This is one of those artists where everything just came together — jazz, soul, blues, R&B," said publicist Matt Lee. "We'll never see his like again."

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.