Keyboard artist dies at 69 (Straits Times)
YAKIMA (Washington) - LARRY Knechtel, a Grammy award-winning keyboard artist who accompanied leading musicians and combos from Elvis Presley and Ray Charles to Elvis Costello and the Dixie Chicks, is dead at 69. Knechtel died on Thursday at a local hospital of an apparent heart attack. His death was confirmed by a spokesman for Valley Hills Funeral Home.