Jack Cooke
Jack Cooke
Top Songs
| 1 | I've Always Been A Ramble | ||
| 2 | Let Me Rest At The End Of My Journey | ||
| 3 | Sugar Coated Love | ||
| 4 | There's A Higher Power | ||
| 5 | Seven Year Blues |
Albums
Feb 2007 • 15 songs
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Biography
A teenage Jack Cooke told his sister "I'm never going to work. I'm going to let this guitar do it for me." In hindsight, it may seem prophetic and not teenage folly, but it was actually the bass that turned the Virginia native into one of bluegrass' most revered musicians. Cooke got his start in 1955 when he backed Ralph and Carter Stanley in the Stanley Brothers' backup band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. A year later he began a four-year stint in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, this time doing double duty on vocals. In 1960 he formed his own band, the Virginia Mountain Boys, and s...