Area blues legend D.C. Minner died Tuesday at the age of 73.
Minner, a blues guitarist, and his wife Selby hosted the Dusk ‘til Dawn Blues Festival in his hometown of Rentiesville each Labor Day weekend for 17 years.
He was born in January 1935 in Rentiesville and went on to play bass guitar behind such blues legends and rock‘n’roll pioneers as Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Freddy King. He met Selby, a bass guitarist, while living in California in the late 1960s.
Minner was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and received a Governor’s Arts Award from Gov. Brad Henry in 2005.
Services are pending at Ragsdale Funeral Center.
Local News
May 7, 2008
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