• Skip Battin

    Archive Posted On September 1, 2003
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    Skip Battin, who played bass with several pioneering country-rock bands in the 1960s and ’70s, including the late-period Byrds and the New Riders Of The Purple Sage, died July 6 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 69.




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