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Associated Press:

• John Stewart recorded some of pop music's most acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana, but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit "Daydream Believer."
  
  Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of folk music's Kingston Trio, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital after suffering a brain aneurism. He was 68.
  
  Stewart left the Kingston Trio shortly before the Monkees released "Daydream Believer" in 1967, then went on to record nearly four dozen solo albums, including the critically acclaimed "California Bloodlines" and "Bombs Away Dream Babies." The latter included the hit single "Gold," in which he dueted with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.
  
  Still, as with "Daydream Believer," he was likely best known for writing songs for others, including Joan Baez, Nanci Griffith, Roseanne Cash and Anne Murray.
  
  A husky-voiced singer and accomplished guitarist who delivered his lyrics in a poignant, often longing voice, his music was hard to classify. It fell somewhere between rock, country and folk and eventually came to be called Americana.
  
  He wrote "Runaway Train," a country hit for Roseanne Cash, and "Strange Rivers," which Joan Baez included on her 1992 "Play Me Backwards" album. Nanci Griffith dueted with him on "Sweet Dreams" and Murray, like the Monkees before her, had a hit with "Daydream Believer."
  
  Stewart was said to be at work on still another album at the time of his death.
  
  Stewart's wife, Buffy, and children were at his side when he died, according to a statement on the Kingston Trio's Web site. There was no immediate word on funeral arrangements.

He wrote some good songs.

Not a fan of his music, I take it.

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"Gold" was a hit for Stewart in the late 1970s. I always liked the studio version, which featured Stevie Nicks on backing vocals.

I thought this was gonna be about that goofball on The Daily Show.

beardguy/troll thread

I like Star Trek. Especially the shows with Lieutenant Commander Data.

Hello, how are you today?

Rex, did you know that Chair-lifting Lad said " Hello , how are you today ? " to Panstfaced Larry in Chocolicious Comics #11111111? That is my favorite issue. It is too bad that Jerry Springer killed Chair-lifting Lad in Chachafaris #838388383383. He was my favorite charactor. He could lift chairs.

Rex, did you know that I have a Chair-lifting Lad statue in my room? It is actually a chair but I have polished and painted it to make it look like him. I hope that Jerry Springer or Uschi do not come to my house and kill him. I would be very sad! He is my favorite charactor. Of the comics.

Lewis Black? WTF does he have to do with the guy who wrote Roseanne Cash's "Runaway Train"?

Here's Stewart with the Kingston Trio, performing their hit "Where Have All the Flowers Gone":

umm, guys, it clearly says in the title "John Stewart" and not "Jon Stewart." the latter is the Daily Show host.

yeah, but knowing someones love for fox news and their love of misleading things we all know what the troll was getting at.

Wow. Rex calling someone else a troll. Could today have started on a more ironic note?

Well, rex, since you follow me around almost as obsessively as you do WB and Beardguy, you probably also know of "my love" for the kind of music known as "Americana" and country-rock, that is, stuff like Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, John Hiatt, etc. And, given the the original article pointed out that Stewart was a force in the Americana genre as a songwriter you shouldn't have been surprised that I was a fan of the guy's music.

It's not my fault you don't know how the host of 'the Daily Show' spells his name.

My brother will be happy about this. John Stewart was my brother's least favorite Green Lantern.

Brother of rascist!

Saw that coming.

Than this has to be a thread about the black Green Lantern. DC killed John Stewart on MLK day!!

I'm not denying any of that. but you all took the bait and it's really as simple as knowing that Jon Stewart is the Daily Show host and John Stewart isn't. G-Man all of you.

Heh, I was wondering when someone was going to mention John Stewart. the black Green Lantern.

since that is a midget, or "Little person", as they prefer to be called, wouldn't that make it a Mini - ?

I didn't, ya big 'mo. I went down a totally different track. So there. Nyah.



Yeah, it was only about three hours after I did. Jerry, stop trying to use Lothar in your weak attempt to Kamphausen me.

(Yeesh, that sounded better in joke concept than in actual posting... )

If thats what you want to believe.

pretty defensive there, JM. I wasn't referring to you, but I guess I should get used to spelling things out for you what with your Boston College education.

You're right. How silly of me. I, as a cultured citizen of the Northeast, forgot that a southerner, such as yourself, doesn't always mean the collective when he says "you all." S/He may just mean the single person to whom he's speaking ("Rex, you all got pwned. IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT!!!"). It's just that quaint patois you denizens south of the Mason-Dixon line have. My mistake. Carry on, you twangy Southern pansy.

VERY defensive there, I thought Pro was supposed to be the one with the sandy vagina. are all guinea pigs this testy or are you just having a visit from Aunt Flo today?

Pro's the one with the sandy vagina. And I'm just generally testy...testy...1, 2...3?!?!?!?

My dad used to listen to this guy when he was in the Kingston Trio.......not my dad but John Stewart......

You shouldn't drag my name into things. It just dumbs you down.

I bet you typed this with your shirt off while a cat was drinking milk from your nipples.

He's Chilean. Don't they all do that every day in those backwater Latin American countries?

Yeah?

LMFAO!!!!!

scream my name, bitch! scream it!