Life Notes: Pearl GM Lesly Simon is undergoing her second round of chemo in her second battle with breast cancer (Life Note 7/25/17). "I am here, alive, fighting and learning as I go," she said via social media earlier today. Reach her here.

BBR Music Group SVP/Promotion Carson James is mourning the loss of his father, Larry Neill Ward, who passed away Aug. 23 in Charleston, SC at the age of 86. A celebration of Larry’s life will be held at a later date. The family asks gifts be made in his honor to the Wounded Warriors Project or a local animal shelter or humane society. Full obituary here; reach James here.