Producer and keyboard amateur Barry Beckett, who recorded and accompanied singers Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Paul Simon and abundant country music stars, has died, his ancestors said on Friday.

Beckett, 66, died at his Hendersonville, Tennessee, home on Wednesday, his ancestors said. He had been diagnosed with blight and suffered strokes, according to bounded media.

In the 1970s, Beckett began bearing in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and played keyboards on albums by Simon, Seger and the Staple Singers as allotment of the acclaimed accent area accepted as "The Swampers."

In Muscle Shoals, he recorded Dylan's anthology "Slow Train Coming," and Dire Straits' anthology "Communique." He appeared on such songs as Simon's "Kodachrome," Seger's "Mainstreet," the Staple Singers' "Respect Yourself," and Willie Nelson's "Bloody Mary Morning."

His aboriginal hit as ambassador came with the Sanford Townsend Band's "Smoke From a Distant Fire" and his aboriginal No. 1 almanac on the pop archive was Mary MacGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers." Amid the added artists he produced were Etta James, Tammy Wynette and rockers Elton John and Sting.

Click Here!

Beckett after was in appeal amid Nashville's country stars, and produced Kenny Chesney's aboriginal two albums.

(Reporting by Pat Harris and Andrew Stern; alteration by Michael Conlon and Will Dunham)