Keyboard artist Larry Knechtel dead at 69 (AP via Yahoo! News)

Larry Knechtel of Yakima, 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.

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