Broken Arrow

Buffalo Springfield drummer found dead

Dewey Martin, who helped found pioneering country rock band Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young, has died.

Martin, 68, was found dead by a roommate in his Los Angeles apartment, friend Lisa Lenes said. She said Martin had health problems in recent years and that she believed he died of natural causes.



For some reason, Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and any of the various configurations of CSNY combined to make our premier choice of music by which to do yardwork, speakers turned out the windows, noise of the mower be damned. It was something special that made me forget the blisters that came from manual edging. It was something incredible to which I could sing off-key, singing down to the dirt and grass, the hot cement, and no one could hear, or judge.

It was beautiful music.