edie brickell
09/04/2007
Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians keyboardist, killed at 34
If you're like me, you may well not have given Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians much thought lately. After all, their biggest single was "What I Am," off 1998's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. They had a few other modest hits, but after Ghost of a Dog in 1990, Brickell married Paul Simon, and New Bohemians pretty much dropped off the radar.
But that's been changing, with a live album in 2000 and a new album, Stranger Things, last year. Other than Brickell's return, the biggest change in the lineup has been the addition of talented Dallas musician Jeffrey Carter Albrecht as keyboardist, completing the transformation of the New Bohemians, who started life as a three-person ska band back in the day, into a fully modern rock band. Tragically, Albrecht was killed this weekend by his girlfriend's neighbor, who shot him through the front door after mistaking him for a burglar.
Albrecht, who also played with Dallas band Sorta as well as his own group Sparrows, did not seem to be one to hog the spotlight. Even when stepping out from behind the keyboard to play guitar, he didn't actually step out from behind the keyboard. But as his musicianship in this live New Bohemians performance of "No Dinero" shows, he made his mark onstage not by being seen, but by being heard.
Albrecht was 34 years old.
