Jack Cooke obituary

Bass player and key figure in the US bluegrass sceneJack Cooke, who has died aged 72, was one of the most familiar faces on the US bluegrass scene for almost 40 years. As a young man he played and sang with Bill Monroe, the Stoneman Family and other acts, but he will be best remembered as the bass player in Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. He joined what became the longest-lived band in bluegrass in 1970 and never took another job; it was only poor health that forced him, earlier this year,...

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