The Blogosphere Remembers Jay Bennett

We’re still in shock over losing Jay Bennett on Sunday morning. The cause of Bennett’s death still isn’t known after the preliminary autopsy reports came back inconclusive according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Bloggers have taken to the web to pay tribute to to the fallen multi-instrumentalist along with Jeff Tweedy – who issued a statement on Wilco’s website yesterday. We’ve read a number of these articles and wanted to share some links to the best of ’em…

• TG,TB and TU lists the 10 Best Jay Bennett Songs
• Greg Kot pens an obit and lists his favorite JB songs
• TAMR shares a Jay Bennett and Ed Burch bootleg
• Rock & Roll Ghost eulogizes Jay Bennett as a friend
• Glide’s Brian Robbins was one of the last to interview JB
• Rock Proper offers a legal, free download of JB’s solo disc
• For a behind the scenes look at the disintegration of Jeff Tweedy’s relationship with Jay Bennett check out this 2002 Magnet article