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Artists:Peter Cooper
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Peter 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.
Luminaries of American song have been lining up of late, praising the debut album from an East Nashville singer-songwriter named Peter Cooper. The reasons for that are both simple – it sounds good – and complex. There’s something different about this thing.
“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
Cooper was five-years-old when he first caught a Kristofferson show. That was on an outdoor stage in Charlotte, NC, not too far from Cooper’s hometown of Spartanburg, SC. Something about the experience must have stuck, as Kristofferson’s wordplay and folk-inspired melodies became a touchstone. From there, it was on to Tom T. Hall, Mickey Newbury, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Bobby Bare, Guy Clark, Eric Taylor and others who managed emotional literacy without ever seeming unduly literary. That’s a tough trick. Takes awhile to learn, and then you have to figure out how to make it into something other than... well, than that same old trick. Reverence and mimicry are close musical cousins that should not marry. Shouldn’t even snuggle, really.
“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
Band Members
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Lloyd Green
Jen Gunderman
Bill Lloyd
Paul Griffith
Pat McInerney
Dave Roe
Alex McCollough
Mark Horn
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| Peter Cooper on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Thin Wild Mercury | Mission Door | 3:07 | 12 |  13 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Steel guitar / Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Country folk / Gold | Couple Of Lies | Mission Door | 4:02 | 12 | 15 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Solo vocalist / Country folk / Dobro | Andalusia | Mission Door | 3:41 | 11 |  15 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Acoustic guitar / Steel guitar / Country folk / Solo vocalist |
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Artist name is|Peter Cooper Last played| more than 1 month ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Peter Cooper Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Songs on WWR: 12
- Total plays: 147
- Total requests: 152
- Total listens: 3519
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