Kelly Joe Phelps, the celebrated singer-songwriter whose music blurred blues, country, and jazz, has died. His collaborator Steve Dawson confirmed the news in a post to Phelps’ Facebook page, writing that Phelps died “quietly at home in Iowa” on Tuesday. He was 62.

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A couple of weeks back, Damon Albarn stepped in it big time when he said that Taylor Swift “doesn’t write her own songs” in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. The Blur and Gorillaz frontman went on to argue that it doesn’t count as official songwriting when Swift collaborates with other writers: “I’m not...