Kenny Edwards, musician was 64

You may remember last week's item on Edwards needing help for a medical airlift home from Denver. He died yesterday in Santa Barbara, and had been treated recently for prostate cancer and a blood disorder. Edwards grew up in Mar Vista, attended Venice High School and worked at McCabe's Guitar Shop. He later became a frequent session musician and toured with Karla Bonoff and others, but his first mark in music was co-founding the Stone Poneys in 1965 with another McCabe's staffer and recruiting an unknown Tucson folk singer to front the band. "He was always a beacon to me," Linda Ronstadt said Thursday. "He introduced me to so much stuff, and his opinion always counted a lot to me."