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John Byrne Cooke

John Byrne CookeJohn Byrne Cooke is an American author, musician, and photographer. He is the son of Alistair Cooke, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In the 1960s, he played with the bluegrass band, the Charles River Valley Boys,  and was Janis Joplin’s road manager from 1967 until her death.

He has written several Western fiction novels, and book reviews for the New York Times, Washington Post, Book World, and the Los Angeles Times.

Cooke has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming since 1982.

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The mission of Folk New England is to foster appreciation and preservation of the indigenous folk music of the New England area through collection, preservation, and dissemination of both primary and secondary sources.  We work with individuals, families, musicians, scholars, students, and ordinary folk to increase and perpetuate the collection and understanding of the diverse common musical heritage of the region.





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