Bill Perry Passes
My old friend Bro Perry passed at his home. I grew up in Nyack and went to school with a bunch of Perry cousins and kin including Bill, known as Bro to his friends. Bill was amazingly talented. I first heard him play in his Hendrix cover band Isabella at a grungy bar at the outskirts of the West Nyack Dump about 30 years ago. I remember him bringing down the house with his version of Red House. He went on to do the music of Jimi in a Broadway show and then, after 20 years of doing rock and blues he was discovered for the great talent that he was.
He has been doing the "chitlin circuit" and I saw him a few times at local clubs, but not as often as I wish now I had.
Bro suffered from diabetes and other health problems. I heard that he fell and his manager found him, but it was too late.
Bill Berry at Blind Pig
