Mike Cooley (musician)
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Mike Cooley | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Tuscumbia, Alabama |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, guitarist |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
Years active | 1985–present |
Labels | ATO Records |
John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals.[1] He is a member of the band Drive-By Truckers.
Background
Cooley received his first guitar at age 8, spending time with a local bluegrass musician to pick up the instrument.[2] In 1985, he formed the punk-influenced band Adam's House Cat with Patterson Hood. The band was chosen as a top ten Best Unsigned Band by a Musician contest in the late 1980s. After the end of Adam's House Cat, Cooley and Hood performed as a duo under the name "Virgil Kane." While living in Auburn, Alabama they started a new band, "Horsepussy," before splitting for a few years. It was during this split that Hood moved to Athens, Georgia and began forming what would become Drive-By Truckers with the intent of luring Cooley back into the fold.[3]
With the Drive-by Truckers
Hood and Cooley formed
Solo career
In 2013, Cooley released his first solo effort The Fool on Every Corner, a live album recorded at Atlanta's The EARL.
On June 15, 2014, Cooley, Patterson Hood, and Jason Isbell performed at a benefit concert in Florence, Alabama's Shoals Theater. The live acoustic concert was released as an album, Mike Cooley Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell Live at the Shoals Theater on November 6, 2020.[5]
Cooley and Hood occasionally perform as an acoustic duo under the moniker Dimmer Twins.[6]
On May 22, 2021, he performed at a benefit concert in
Cooley lives in Hoover, Alabama with his wife and children.[8]
Drive-By Truckers contributions
Year | Album | Song |
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2022 | Welcome 2 Club XIII | "Maria's Awful Disclosures" |
"Every Single Storied Flameout" | ||
2020 | The New OK | "Sarah's Flame" |
2020 | The Unraveling | "Slow Ride Argument" |
"Grievance Merchants" | ||
2016 | American Band | "Ramon Casiano" |
"Surrender Under Protest" | ||
"Filthy and Fried" | ||
"Kinky Hypocrite" | ||
"Once They Banned Imagine" | ||
2014 | English Oceans | "Shit Shots Count" |
"Primer Coat" | ||
"Made Up English Oceans" | ||
"Hearing Jimmy Loud" | ||
"Natural Light" | ||
"First Air of Autumn" | ||
2011 | Go-Go Boots | "Cartoon Gold" |
"The Weakest Man" | ||
"Pulaski" | ||
2010 | The Big To Do
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"Birthday Boy" |
"Get Downtown" | ||
"Eyes Like Glue" | ||
2008 | Brighter Than Creation's Dark | "3 Dimes Down" |
"Perfect Timing" | ||
"Self Destructive Zones" | ||
"Bob" | ||
"Lisa's Birthday" | ||
"Checkout Time in Vegas" | ||
"A Ghost to Most" | ||
2006 | A Blessing and a Curse | "Gravity's Gone" |
"Space City" | ||
2004 | The Dirty South | " Where the Devil Don't Stay "
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" Carl Perkins' Cadillac "
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"Cottonseed" | ||
"Daddy's Cup" | ||
2003 | Decoration Day | "Marry Me" |
"Sounds Better in the Song" | ||
"When the Pin Hits the Shell" | ||
"Loaded Gun in the Closet" | ||
2001 | Southern Rock Opera | "72 (This Highway's Mean)" |
"Guitar Man Upstairs" | ||
"Zip City" | ||
"Women Without Whiskey" | ||
"Shut Up and Get on the Plane" | ||
2001 | Pizza Deliverance | "Uncle Frank" |
"One of These Days" | ||
"Love Like This" | ||
1998 | Gangstabilly | "Panties in Your Purse" |
Discography
- Live Albums
- The Fool on Every Corner (2013)
Sources
- ^ AL.com blog
- ^ "12 Questions with Mike Cooley". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ News
- ^ "Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". www.rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2008. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ^ "Live at the Shoals Theater".
- ^ "Dimmer Twins".
- ^ Kelly, Kim (May 19, 2021). "'Alabama Strike Fest' Planned to Help Striking Coal Miners". Rolling Stone. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
- ^ "Personal challenge: Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers readies for solo shows at Birmingham's WorkPlay (Video)". December 16, 2011.