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CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin'...

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CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died at age 86. Lay died Saturday of natural causes in Chicago, Alligator Records said Monday.

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In the early morning of March 9, 1997, when Christopher Wallace (known as the notorious BIG) was shot in Los Angeles, the hip-hop community was still mourning the death of Tupac Shakur , The latter was killed in Las Vegas less than a year ago. At that time, there was a fierce battle between the east coast and west coast rappers, which eventually led to very public hatred and even violent conflict. Despite the turmoil, it is still hard to imagine that their deaths will have decades of impact on the music industry-both were killed in their 20s-or a quarter of the cases remain unsolved. A centur...