John Byrne Cooke (October 5, 1940 – September 3, 2017) was an American author, musician, and photographer. He was the son of

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. In the 1960s he played with the bluegrass band, the

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, and was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her death in 1970. He wrote ''On the Road with Janis Joplin'', detailing the period of Joplin's life from her first appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival until her death. Cooke wrote several

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novels, and book reviews for ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. Cooke lived in

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from 1982 until his death from cancer in 2017, aged 76.

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1986 interview with Cooke
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