Passing: Les Paul

From the New York Times:

By JON PARELES
Published: August 13, 2009

Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, died on August 13, 2009 in White Plains, N.Y. He was 94.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&hp

From NPR News:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111845182

Les Paul with Chet Atkins (Birth of the Blues):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGsHTlKmWk&feature=related