Bye Bye, Love

Nashville drummer Buddy Harman has passed away.

You may not know his name, but you are almost certainly familiar with his work. He played on countless classic country and pop songs, working with everyone from Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash to the Everly Brothers to Simon and Garfunkel. He even played bass on one of Ringo Starr's albums. According to the linked obit, he played on 18,000 records. That surely puts him up there with another legendary session drummer, Los Angeles's Hal Blaine, for the largest number of recordings by any musician.

Harman was also the house drummer for the Grand Ole Opry.