Born Jake Black in the Possil area of Glasgow, Scotland; April 27, 1960 passed May 21, 2019)
Known professionally as The Rev. D. Wayne Love of self described UK based “Little Acid House On The Prairie” band Alabama 3, (aka A3), Black once told Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh:
“Trainspotting was iconoclastic for us. It introduced a whole disenfranchised generation to literature, a generation that had been informed literature was the possession of an elite. It delineated the complex inner lives of the housing estates and communities people lived in.
“We’ve been trying to do the same with our music, trying to show young people that they can make music based on their own lives, using genres like country and blues that they probably considered the territory of their dads and grannies.”
The Reverend’s passing in 2019 was announced in a post on Facebook, in which the band said,
“Early this afternoon, on a beautiful summer’s day, our friend, comrade and spiritual teacher, Jake Black AKA The Very Reverend D.Wayne Love, passed over to the higher ground.
“After a magnificent performance at the Highpoint Festival in Lancashire, D.Wayne in his supreme wisdom, decided it was the appropriate moment for his ascension into the next level.
“The transition was painless and peaceful. He was surrounded by brothers Larry Love, L.B. Dope, The Spirit, Jonny Jamm and Sister Therese Mullan.
“We are heartbroken.
“All that remains for us, at this moment, is to carry out his precise instructions regarding the continuation of his teachings as a First Minister of The Presleyterian Church of Elvis The Divine, and continue The Great Work.
“His last words, which we have yet to decipher, were “Tweet Tweet, Possil Fleet”.