I know the season has already started but this is in honor of Fenway and 1912.
The senior music writer and columnist for Nashville daily The Tennesseean and a professor of country music history at Vanderbilt University, Peter Cooper also steps out as a performing songwriter... Continue reading "Peter Cooper: Nashville Scholar, Fake Hillbilly Hater" >

On Friday, I told you about the thousands and thousands of CDs I got to sort through in my Program Director's office last week at WDVX. I shared a few of my finds with you then, and I'd like to share a few more of them here today. Rebecca Pronsky - Departures & Arrivals As I mentioned here last month , Brooklyn native Rebecca Pronsky's new [...]

* Country Standard Time has posted my review of Peter Cooper's new CD, The Lloyd Green Album . It's a great mix of originals and wisely chosen covers from Nashville's favorite music critic. Lloyd Green's steel guitar is the perfect instrument to bring Cooper's songs to life. Fans should also check out the new collaborative release from Eric Brace and Peter Cooper called Master Sessions . It also features Green along with Seldom Scene dobro master Mike Auldridge. Peter Cooper: Champion [...]
Toby Keith: A friend to the soldiers (though not actually a soldier)Remember the whole brouhaha last week surrounding Ethan Hawke's Rolling Stone story about Kris Kristofferson, in which he describes ... Continue reading "Apparently Someone Does Remember the Toby Keith/Kris Kristofferson Incident" >
The film adaptation of the story of Toby and Peter.... Continue reading "Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. Peter Cooper--The Movie" >
Technically speaking, Kris, Toby Keith has in fact worn his country's uniformI've never been quite sure what to make of Toby Keith. On the one hand, his whole redneck shtick and uber-patriotic songs l... Continue reading "Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. The Tennessean's Peter Cooper" >

Last time I wrote about Peter Cooper it was on a Honky Tonk Friday , he didn't quite fit then and he doesn't fit now. But this time I can't wait `til Friday to write about his new record Mission Door on Red Beet Records. Mission Door is a re-release of his debut record Cautionary Tales . But as is the case with most self released records this one initially didn't make a dent with the public despite awing critics and fellow musicians. So a re-do is in order. [...]
I put another quarter in the re-released jukebox and dropped five more slices of classic rock, pop and folk down on the turntable. [MP3] The Mojo Men - She's My Baby This San Francisco combo had the sneer and swagger of garage down pat. This track is a classic blues ripper but the real kicker in this song is the sheer power from the fuzz guitar. Once that note comes in everything in its path is wiped out; completely guaranteed to render anyone in a 3 mile radius sterile. [...]