Musician Jake Black of the Alabama 3 band died in hospital on Tuesday 21 May 2019!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: shahid | In Career , Death

Jake Black was the founder and singer of the band Alabama 3. He is no more. He died a few days after the band performed at a festival.

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Jake Black and his death

Jake Black founded the band Alabama 3 and he was the lead singer of the band. He was also a songwriter. The band performed at a festival recently last Friday.

After the show, he had taken ill. He was hospitalized and died on Tuesday 21 May 2019. He was in his late 50s agewise.

The band put up a post on their Facebook page that said:

“Early this afternoon, on a beautiful summer’s day, our friend, comrade and spiritual teacher, Jake Black AKA The Very Reverend D.Wayne Love, passed over to the higher ground. After a magnificent performance at the Highpoint Festival in Lancashire, D.Wayne in his supreme wisdom, decided it was the appropriate moment for his ascencion into the next level.
The transition was painless and peaceful. He was surrounded by brothers Larry Love, L.B. Dope, The Spirit, Jonny Jamm and Sister Therese Mullan.
We are heartbroken.
All that remains for us, at this moment, is to carry out his precise instructions regarding the continuation of his teachings as a First Minister of The Presleyterian Church of Elvis The Divine and continue The Great Work.
His last words, which we have yet to decipher, were “Tweet Tweet, Possil Fleet”.

Bandmate Nick Reynolds pays tribute

Nick Reynolds is the band’s harmonica player. He said about Jake:

“Jake was a great raconteur and wit – he could bring the house down with an acid quip.
“An intellectual polymath, he would call my dad and they would speak for hours bouncing from (Jean) Genet to (Edgar Rice) Burroughs, (Ken) Russell or (Federico) Fellini, to (Eddie) Merckx or (Fausto) Coppi.
“We’ve lost a truly great and unique frontman, his disciples have lost their favourite minister. RIP Jake, Gone but never forgotten.”

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About Jake Black

Jake was a Glaswegian. He had founded the band in 1995 along with fellow singer Rob Spragg. The band has recorded innumerable albums and did an electronic fusion of country, blues, and acid house music.

He had co-written the theme tune for the TV series The Sopranos. The show is about US gangsters and talks about their struggles with their emotions. Their song Woke Up This Morning was used for it. The show’s creator David Chase liked the song and wanted it for the HBO show. They paid the band $40,000 (£31,500) for it.

Jake had told The Times at that time:

“It’s totally ironic that we, who disapprove of anything villains do, should be picked for the theme song of a show that shows the human side of villains.”

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The song originally talked about a British woman who kills her husband who had abused her for many years.

Source: Sky News, Billboard

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