Died On This Date (January 5, 2008) Drew Glackin / The Silos
themusicsover Drew Glackin
1963 – January 5, 2008
Drew Glackin is best remembered as the bassist for critically praised Americana band, the Silos. He also played bass for Graham Parker, Susan Tedeschi, and the Crash Test Dummies. A multi-instrumentalist, Glackin could play the piano, trumpet and French horn while still in elementary school and soon thereafter picked up the guitar and bass. He studied music while in college in Hartford, Connecticut where he worked booking talent at a local club. He joined the Silos in 1998. Drew Glackin was 44 when he died on January 5, 2008 of cardiac arrest brought on by an undiagnosed thyroid condition.