From the Los Angeles Times John Stewart, 68; singer-songwriter of folk By Richard Cromelin Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 21, 2008 John Stewart, an intense troubadour who helped set the standards for the singer-songwriter movement of the early 1970s with his classic album “California Bloodlines,” died Saturday in his hometown of San Diego after suffering a stroke. He was 68. Stewart didn’t match that acclaim again, but in the long solo career that followed his seven years with the Kingston Trio, he recorded more than 45 albums, flirted with chart success, pioneered the independent recording and release of records, and remained a hard-touring folk patriarch with a loyal following. Stewart, who lived in Novato in Northern California, had a concert scheduled at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica on Feb. 2 and was in San Diego to complete work on a new album. Recorded in Nashville with some of the musicians who worked on Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline,” “California Bloodlines” wasn’t a commercial hit when it came out in 1969, but its folk-country blend and Stewart’s literary use of quintessential American characters and geography have resonated through the decades in the folk genre that has become known as Americana. ” ‘California Bloodlines’ is a vision of America written after traveling around the country spending my boyhood on racetracks,” Stewart, whose father was a horse trainer, said in a 2003 interview with the San Jose Mercury News. “When I left the Trio, I …

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