Pop and Rock Star Deaths in 2017

Larry Coryell

Bands: solo artist, the Eleventh House, Foreplay, the Guitar Trio

Position: guitarist

Died: Feb. 19, 2017

Cause of death: heart failure

Age: 73

Distinction: The Texas-born jazz-fusion pioneer struggled with heroin addiction.

Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom

Publisher of CelebStoner.com, former editor of High Times and Freedom Leaf and co-author of Pot Culture and Reefer Movie Madness.