Mentor Williams, R. I. P.

Rolling Stone: Mentor Williams, the award-winning writer of "Drift Away," the easygoing pop classic recorded by Dobie Gray in 1973, died Wednesday morning, according to the Taos News. A longtime resident of Taos, New Mexico, Williams was the younger brother of songwriter-actor Paul Williams and was preceded in death by brother John Williams, a distinguished NASA engineer. He was 70.