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At 10.30am on the 25th May 2007 John passed away. He had knowingly been
suffering since February from an unknown bone marrow deficiency illness which
developed into Leukaemia. He has left a legacy through his recordings going
back to 1963.
Some of us called him "One Take Woollard", a testimony of his rare talent.
We have lost our greatest friend. We have lost so much. John worshipped music
and among others his big love was Mickey Newbury. These are some of his
favourite lyrics, from the song Cortelia Clarke by M. Newbury:
A blind old man and I we came
To Guthrie just to see the train,
He was black and I was green.
Tell me son the old man said
Is the engine black or red.
That's the loudest thing I've ever seen.
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