Former Morphine drummer Billy Conway has passed away at age 65
, was released by DreamWorks Records in 1997 — peaking at No. 67 on the Billboard 200 album chart — followed by their posthumous final collection, 2000’sColley and Conway paid homage to their late singer in 1999 with the all-star Orchestra Morphine band and later formed the group Twinemen with Conway’s longtime partner, musician Laurie Sargent., said that the drummer was diagnosed with bowel cancer for which he had emergency surgery in Oct.
“Billy Conway is one of the great drummers in American music: a relentlessly inventive, eerily intuitive player whose particular combination of spiritual authority and delicate restraint make him at once versatile and easily recognizable,” the label wrote during his illness. “He’s appeared on scores of albums across genres in the last four decades and influenced generations of players, becoming one of the most widely respected and beloved musicians in the country.
During his recovery, Conway and Sargent worked to finish songs he’d written over his many years on the road, releasing them on his debut solo album, 2020’s. The album came out the same year that doctors told Conway that his cancer spread to his liver.
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