Nashville Cats Mac Gayden (right) joins Nashville Cats Charlie McCoy during Listen To The Band: The Nashville Cats In Concert With Special Guests For "Dylan, Cash, And The Nashville Cats" Exhibition Opening Weekend at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on March 28, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum)Getty Images
Mac Gayden, a popular country and rock singer and a talented songwriter, has died.
He was 83.
The New York Times reported that Gayden died on Wednesday at his home in Nashville due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.
The Times said that Gayden co-wrote the “pop evergreen” song “Everlasting Love,” and called him “an innovative guitarist who recorded with Bob Dylan.” It also credited him with helping Nashville become “a recording hub for artists working outside the bounds of country music.”
The publication also noted his work on “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” with Bob Dylan and “Blonde on Blonde.” It called the work his “most illustrious achievement” while pointing out that it strangely went “uncredited for decades.”
Gayden was a native of Nashville. His career began in the 1960s.
“Mac Gayden’s fingerprint was recognized at a time the world was becoming acutely aware of the blinding array, and virtuosity, of Nashville’s first-call cats,” Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum CEO Kyle Young said. “His sheer musicality was a dazzling force, and his spirit a gift to us all.”
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