John Byrne Cooke (October 5, 1940 – September 3, 2017) was an American author, musician, and photographer.
He was the son of the English-born writer and broadcaster Alistair Cooke, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
[2] In the 1960s he played with the bluegrass band, the Charles River Valley Boys,[3] and was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her death in 1970.
Cooke lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming from 1982 until his death from cancer in 2017, aged 76.
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