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   From: will.dockery@knology.net   
      
   "Robbie Wright" wrote   
   >On Jan 21, 12:50 pm, "Will Dockery" wrote:   
   >> On 1/20/08, Robbie Wright wrote:   
   >   
   > > Hey Will,   
   >   
   > > My favorite musician died yesterday.   
   >   
   > Really sad... he was one of ther greats, and sadly overlooked by the   
   > mainstream.   
   >   
   > His death is getting almost no   
   >   
   > > press coverage. Could you please forward this on to everyone you know,   
   > > like you have before with stuff about like Bob Dylan and others. I was   
   > > supposed to email him for Playgrounds, but - now it's obviously not   
   > > going to happen.   
   >   
   > I remember that... too bad it never happened.   
   >   
   > > John Stewart wrote, "Daydream Believer," "Runaway Train" and had his   
   > > own Top 40 hit, "Gold" which featured Stevie Nicks and Lindsay   
   > > Buckingham.   
      
   Allegedly, and I do stress allegedly, Lindsey Buckingham is on the   
   album John Stewart recorded just before his death, that hasn't been   
   released. One obit reported that. However, I had not heard anything   
   about it before reading that obit, and it seems like that would have   
   been something that would have been known on Bloodlines already. I   
   hope to, sometime down the road, contact Dave and ask him about   
   Stewart's last album's details and whatnot. I would love to do that   
   now and add it to my article, but I feel as if I should wait out of   
   respect.   
      
   Lindsey Buckingham was on several of John's albums in the '80's. I   
   know he performed on at least one song on "Wires From The Bunker." He   
   arranged "Queen of Hollywood High" and "Jenny Was A Dream Girl" off of   
   Blondes, and added backing vocals to "Jenny Was A Dream Girl." Linda   
   Ronstadt added vocals to "Queen of Hollywood High." Buckingham also   
   sang on "Hearts and Dreams On The Line" off of "The Last Campaign." I   
   believe he was also on John's "Chilly Winds" album - although I'm not   
   sure of exactly what songs he was on.   
      
   I think that Lindsey Buckingham was on some other albums of John's,   
   too, but I'm not sure of which ones.   
      
   Another interesting thing to note, is that after John Stewart left the   
   Trio, he was planning on working with John Denver. They recorded   
   several songs, but Denver's voice over powered John's and they   
   couldn't sing together like was planned. John Denver later song on   
   Stewart's "Survivor's" off of "Canon's In The Rain." Stewart still had   
   the tapes that he and Denver recorded together, but they had not been   
   released to my knowledge. John released to a fan and friend of his, a   
   box full of his old demos. Most of them are available as various   
   bootleg CDs that have been passed around on Bloodlines. The quality is   
   really good on most of the recordings, too. In fact Stewart's   
   officially released "Wires From The Bunker" was a compilation CD made   
   up of demos from the "Gold" era of John's recording. I have actually   
   an early demo of "Gold," which is pretty interesting.   
      
   John Stewart also recorded a song with Johnny Cash, "Get Rhythm," but   
   the two recording their vocal parts separately and were never in the same   
   studio together.   
      
   (Don't know why Google isn't /quoting/ properly, these days/... I notice   
   that with everyone posting through Google Groups today)   
      
   Yeah, unfortunatly (for John Stewart, who won't see it) the next, last   
   record will probably get a big promotion, "the late great" and all that...   
   but good for the fans and maybe new ones.   
      
   Gotta run pretty soon for the Loft, to catch Mallard's set... hoping he'll   
   do some Stewart cover or two, and I know he tries to go on as soon as   
   possible, and to have a meeting with Henry to see what he wants for a set   
   tonight... a good chance he has some JS material in mind, perhaps something   
   really early, maybe even "Daydream Believer"... that wou;d be pretty cool,   
   I've had the words engrained in my brain for 40 years now... heh.   
      
   > > My friend John Stewart died this morning in San Diego, California ..   
   > > in the hospital he was born in on September 5th, 1939 ... 68 years   
   > > ago.   
   >   
   > > John suffered a massive stroke or brain aneurysm early Friday morning   
   > > in San Diego. Doctors had determined that any difficult surgical   
   > > remedies that might have been employed to save his life-- even if   
   > > successful -- would had left John immobile and unable to speak. It   
   > > wasn't generally known, but doctors had told John in recent years that   
   > > he had apparently experienced various minor strokes, likely in his   
   > > sleep   
   >   
   > > In the early 1970s, Stewart wrote "Cooler Water, Higher Ground," one   
   > > of his many highly personalized songs, in which he sang "I was born in   
   > > the heat of September, and I died in the cool of the fall ... borning   
   > > and dying we do all the time, it don't mean much of nothing at all."   
   > > But his passing will mean so much, to so many, around the world.   
   >   
   > > John's all-time companion and wife Buffy, and his children -- Mikael,   
   > > Jeremy, Amy, and Luke -- were at his side when he passed peacefully   
   > > around 7:30 a.m. Pacific time. John never regained consciousness after   
   > > collapsing in his hotel room late Thursday/early Friday, and was not   
   > > in pain during his time at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego.   
   >   
   > > John Stewart leaves a compilation of musical excellence unparalleled   
   > > in his time. He recorded over 45 solo albums following his seven years   
   > > in the Kingston Trio, 1961-67. He worked all the way up to the time of   
   > > his death, having recently completed his latest as-yet untitled album.   
   > > It is estimated that he wrote more than 600 unique and highly personal   
   > > songs, many of them constituting a modern musical history of his   
   > > beloved America.   
   >   
   > > He leaves behind a wide-ranging group of fans who have felt a passion   
   > > for him and his music that bordered on fanaticism. Chief among them   
   > > are the Bloodliners, a hard-core legion of supporters who communicated   
   > > via computer everyday in discussing John and his career.   
   >   
   > > It can now be said that John was told last summer, shortly before Trio   
   > > Fantasy Camp 8, that he was suffering from the initial stages of   
   > > Alzheimer's disease. That news was kept from the public in the hope   
   > > that his condition would stabilize and allow him to work in the   
   > > following years until the disease took its eventual toll. Indeed he   
   > > had stabilized in the time since Camp, and was able to bravely perform   
   > > several concert shows and do the studio work on his new album.   
   >   
   > > If there is a blessing in his passing, it is that he will now be   
   > > spared the true ravages of that awful disease. He will not suffer the   
   > > gradual personal mental reductions caused by Alzheimer's, though he   
   > > had already lost his ability to drive, owing to California law. In   
   > > fact, one of the new songs on the upcoming album is "I Can't Drive   
   > > Anymore," a typically honest and emotional personal reaction to his   
   > > situation.   
   >   
   > > Speaking personally, losing John creates a hole in my soul. I had   
      
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