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1958-1961 - Stewart forms and performs with his own folk trio The Cumberland
Three. Patterned after the Kingston Trio, they release three albums in
these years. Meanwhile, Stewart succeeds in placing several of his songs
on the Kingston Trio's albums, including the Trio's hit “Molly Dee.”
1961-1967 - Stewart joins the Kingston Trio, replacing departing member
Dave Guard. Stewart sings lead on several of their biggest hits, including
"The Reverend Mr. Black," and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone.” Stewart
also continues to write prolifically, and many of his compositions become
stand - out tracks on the Trio’s later albums.
1967 - After leaving the Trio, Stewart writes the Monkees' hit "Daydream
Believer."
1968 - Stewart and Buffy Ford campaign with Robert Kennedy and record
their first - and until now, only - album together, Signals Through
the Glass.
1969 - Stewart releases his first solo album - the critically acclaimed
California Bloodlines.
1970-1979 - A succession of classic recordings, hovering between folk,
country, and rock - years before "Americana" becomes a marketing buzzword.
1978 - A Rolling Stone critics poll lists Stewart's '69 solo debut California
Bloodlines as #36 of the top 200 albums of all time.
1979 - Stewart's song "Gold," from his best-selling album Bombs
Away Dream Babies charts in the top 5, with Fleetwood Mac members
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham contributing vocals and guitars to
the album. Stewart's songs "Lost Her In The Sun" and "Midnight Wind" also
hit the top 30.
1980 - 1985 - Stewart's 1980 follow-up to Bombs Away Dream Babies,
entitled Dream Babies Go Hollywood, fails to hit the charts,
but Stewart continues to write and record some of the finest work of his
career, including the Revenge of the Budgie album (since reissued
by Folk Era as 1/2 of the Chilly Winds album) with fellow Kingston
Trio alumnus, Nick Reynolds.
1986 - Another masterpiece, Punch The Big Guy is released and
garners 3 1/2 half stars from Rolling Stone.
1988 - Rosanne Cash sends Stewart's "Runaway Train" to #1 on the country
charts, and Stewart duets with Nanci Griffith on his song "Sweet Dreams"
on her Little Love Affairs album.
1989 - 1996 - Joan Baez records Stewart's "Strange Rivers" on her Grammy
Nominated Play Me Backwards album, while Stewart releases several
more acclaimed albums on his own Homecoming Records label as well as Chilly
Winds on the Folk Era label, two releases on the Laserlight label
and two on the Shanachie label.
1996 - Stewart signs with Folk Era Records, who previously had released
his Chilly Winds album. Stewart’s new album for Folk Era - Live
At The Turf Inn, Scotland - sees the return of Buffy Ford to the
front of the album jacket for the first time since their 1968 debut, Signals
Through the Glass.
1997 - Folk Era releases Rough Sketches, an album of songs
Stewart has written on or about Route 66. The album is the most unified
of Stewart’s releases since 1986’s Punch The Big Guy, and his
fans begin calling the album one of his finest moments the minute they
hear the advance cassette Stewart releases.
2004 - Folk Era licenses and reissues John Stewart’s first “solo” album Signals Through The Glass. Partnered with his future wife, Buffy Ford, this album is American songwriting at its best and contains new liner notes by Bill Bush and rare photography by Henry Diltz. In the August 2005 issue of Record Collector Magazine (U.K.), noted music critic, Richie Unterberger named this album one of the “25 Lost Classics” of American folk-rock from the sixties.
2006 - The release of The Day The River Sang, John’s first new album in over two years.
References:
Stewart has worked with and/or influenced Nanci Griffith, Rosanne Cash,
Johnny Cash, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, James Taylor, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey
Buckingham, & John Hiatt (among others).
Discography:
12 albums with the Kingston Trio, 33+ solo albums, 3 collections, and
an ever growing number of "authorized bootlegs" tag Stewart as one of
the most prolific and consistent songwriter's of our time.
Conclusion:
John Stewart's songs form an American soundtrack - words, music, feeling,
each echo within and around him. With his new songs carrying as much
or more power as his enduring classics, a new live album, Live At The
Turf Inn, Scotland just out, and two more albums planned for 1997 release,
there is little sign of Stewart disappearing from the American soundscape
anytime soon, which is fortunate indeed.
Accolades
"John Stewart is an archetypal American singer-songwriter ... A man
who hasn't lost his enormous faith in people and who earnestly but eloquently
compresses more than four decades of dreams and regrets into his songs,"
Steve Pond, Rolling Stone
"His work over the last 25 years constitutes a stunning body
of lonesome reflections on the promise and betrayal of the American
experience . . his is a music of longing, a hushed hope that what
is best in the country will somehow emerge," A.Lin Neumann, Phoenix
New Times
"John Stewart has achieved in song what I attempt in paint,"
James Wyeth
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