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Peter Cooper

Triple-five stars! - Todd Snider

About Me

"Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist’s eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them." -Kris KristoffersonPeter Cooper is the same guy who writes about music for the Nashville Tennessean and who appears as a talking head on CNN, CMT, MSNBC, the BBC, the Biography Channel and other outlets. He’s also a touring singer-songwriter and instrumentalist who has played on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman and Prairie Home Companion. His songs have been praised by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mojo, No Depression, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. Cooper has opened numerous tour dates for Todd Snider (and collaborated with Snider, singing harmonies, playing bass and co-writing a song on Snider’s brilliant "The Devil You Know" album) and worked in the studio with Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Lloyd Green, Ricky Skaggs and other luminaries. He recently produced Snider’s odds ’n’ sods album, Peace, Love and Anarchy. His own debut album is called Mission Door. More information available at www.petercoopermusic.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/25/2006
Band Website: petercoopermusic.com
Band Members: Depends, but band members can (and sometimes do) include Lloyd Green, Jen Gunderman, Bill Lloyd, Paul Griffith, Pat McInerney, Dave Roe, Alex McCollough and Mark Horn.
Influences: Eric Taylor, John Prine, Tom T. Hall, Kris Kristofferson, Todd Snider, Jason Ringenberg, Big House Red wine, fellow members of Sheboygan Elks Lodge 299, Peter Guralnick, Elvis Hixx, David Olney, Brett Favre, Randy Newman, Hank Aaron, Hank Williams, Baker Maultsby, Fayssoux McLean.
Sounds Like: “The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.” – Tom T. Hall“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist’s eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.” – Kris Kristofferson"Peter Cooper’s voice is just the right fit for his moody tunes and engaging music." - Washington Post"(’715’ is) an utterly transfixing meditation on Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, baseball and the South, just in time for opening day." - USA Today“Mission Door is rife with graceful melodies, intelligent humor and pithy turns of phrase.” – Pasadena Weekly"A quick wit and an honest voice that would have made Roger Miller proud." - Jason Ringenberg of Jason and the Scorchers."Excuse me young man, but I need to get past you to get some roast beef." - Garrison Keillor.
Record Label: Red Beet Records, and Corazong Records in Europe
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Alaska Tour Diary... the rest of the story

 Thursday afternoon, we returned to Talkeetna and got ready for the Whole Wheat Radio show. I can't say enough about this station (www.wholewheatradio.org) or about the way that station owner Jim...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:07:00 PST

Alaska Tour Diary 1

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Greetings from the first day of the Alaskan summer. It was supposed to be summer here a while back, but the weather in eastern...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:53:00 PST

New Album, Big Shows, Tom T. Hall, David Olney, Joyce Cook

So, what's been happening around here? Glad you asked. 1) I've been working to sequence a very special (to me, at least) album that will likely come out next year. We've recorded it, mixed it and mast...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

The Missing Years Go Missing

Two days after our formation, The Missing Years are facing some fundamental problems. Essentially, we are rocking SO hard that we are afraid of hurting the audience, and we need a little time to be su...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

Allow me to introduce... The Missing Years, a John Prine Tribute Band

I was over at a friend's house the other day, and we were talking about John Prine. And then we got to singing some John Prine songs. And then we got so excited that we called up The 5 Spot in Nashvil...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:22:00 PST

If you only have five minutes of public radio time to spend tomorrow...

Then how 'bout tuning in to Nashville's WPLN 90.3 FM on Tuesday, June 3 at either 6:45 a.m. (Central time) or 8:34 a.m. (also in the Central)? That's when they'll be running a segment about the Missio...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:05:00 PST

Final three days of the European tour... its a wrap

Monday, May 13, 2008 Began the day with a nice walk around Den Haag  perhaps The Hague to you  where promoter Joanna Serraris lives. It's a lovely city, particularly down by the water. Today i...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:55:00 PST

weekend update - Hoorn and Den Haag

  Saturday, May 11, 2008 We woke early-ish and had breakfast with Wolfgang and Andrea, and then hit the road bound for Hoorn in The Netherlands. It was a more than five-hour drive, but that's the...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:48:00 PST

Thursday and Friday on the Euro Tour... Hamburg, Norstedt, Lotto King Carl, etc.

Thursday, May 9, 2008 I tried to deal with this morning's 6:45 a.m. wakeup call by pretending I was in Nashville, where it was 11:45 p.m. and I would normally still be awake. It's an eight-hour drive...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:09:00 PST

More From The European Tour... Monday through Wednesday... The adventure continues

Monday, May 5, 2008 After breakfast with Michael and Ulricha, we re-loaded the station wagon for the six hour trip to a town called Leipheim. We stopped for lunch in Kassel, and ate in the central squ...
Posted by Peter Cooper on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:31:00 PST