NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Jeff Cook, known as the founding member and legendary guitarist of thecountry group Alabama, has died. He was 73. The multi-award-winning musician was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, Fiddlers Hall of Fame and was Gibson's Guitarist of...
Cookdied at age 73in November 2022 after a battle with Parkinson's disease. The band hit the road again in 2024, even after announcing a farewell tour several years ago. There are currently 13 shows listed at the officialAlabama website, with dates lasting into November. Owen's health has...
around 1980. Much of the film is shot in Philadelphia environs and clubs and in the communal rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood where Sun Ra lived with much of his band – a band that taps into his musical vision and his taste for wild and outlandish garb and adornment...
A band featured on CMT, Extra, Today, and as one of Spotify's Hot Country Artists to watch has been tapped to open the Alabama concert at the Missouri State Fair on Saturday, August 17, 2024. Restless Road, made up of Zach Beeken, Garrett Nichols, and Colton Pack, will open for Ala...
More than 50 years ago, Cook, along with cousins Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen, left Fort Payne to spend the summer playing music in a Myrtle Beach, S.C. bar called The Bowery. The band was called Wildcountry. It took Cook, Gentry and Owen six long years of tip jars and word-of-mou...
Formed in Alabama, the band really made a name for itself in the Southern rock scene throughout the 1970s. While the band changed lineups over the years, they always inspired other groups to follow in their footsteps. Which Alabama country singers are the best? Are you ready to vote for ...
1 Article Did you know Edit Trivia Jake Black, singer and member of the group, composed with a band-mate Rob Spragg "Woke Up This Morning". Born John Black on 27April , 1960, in Basildon, Essex, England, UK, Jake died in London of acute respiratory illness on 21 May 2019. ...
The band announced in April of 2017 that Jeff Cook was battlingParkinson's Diseaseand would no longer be able to tour as a member full time. Cookdiedon Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, at the age of 73, ten years after he was diagnosed and five years after he stepped away from Alabama. ...
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Doobie Brothers founder and drummer John Hartmandied at age 72in September 2022. On social media, his bandmates remembered him as a "wild spirit, great drummer, and showman during his time in the Doobies. He was also a close friend for many years and an intricate part of the band persona...