Photo: Jeff Cook | By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press (AP) | Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.
Cook had Parkinson’s disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. He died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida, said Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
Tributes poured in from country stars, including Travis Tritt who called Cook “a great guy and one heckuva bass fisherman,” and Jason Aldean, who tweeted: “ I got a chance to perform with him multiple times over the years and I will never forget it.” Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, added: “Everything he did was rooted in his deep love of music, a love he shared with millions.”
As a guitarist, fiddle player and vocalist, Cook — alongside cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry — landed eight No. 1 songs on the country charts between spring 1980 and summer 1982, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That run included the pop crossover hits “Love In The First Degree” and “Feels So Right,” as well as “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”
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Survivors include his wife, Lisa.
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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November 2022
9: Rolando Boldrin, 86, Brazilian actor, singer and television presenter; Gal Costa, 77, Brazilian singer.
8: Will Ferdy, 95, Belgian singer; Claes-Göran Hederström, 77, Swedish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1968); Dan McCafferty, 76, Scottish singer (Nazareth) and songwriter (“Broken Down Angel”, “Hair of the Dog”); Garry Roberts, 72, Irish guitarist (The Boomtown Rats).
7: Michel Bühler, 77, Swiss singer-songwriter, poet and writer; Michael Butler, 95, American theater producer (Hair); Jeff Cook, 73, American musician (Alabama), complications from Parkinson’s disease; Sergei Kuznetsov, 58, Russian composer, songwriter and keyboardist (Laskovyi Mai).
6: Ali Birra, 72, Ethiopian singer; Hurricane G, 52, American rapper (Hit Squad), lung cancer; Don Lewis, 81, American vocalist, electronic multi-instrumentalist, and electronic engineer.
5: Daniele Barioni, 92, Italian operatic tenor; Aaron Carter, 34, American singer (“Crush on You”, “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, “Leave It Up to Me”); Tyrone Downie, 66, Jamaican keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers); Carmelo La Bionda, 73, Italian musician (La Bionda) and songwriter (“There for Me”, “One for You, One for Me”), cancer; Mimi Parker, 55, American singer and drummer (Low), ovarian cancer; Tame One, 52, American rapper (Artifacts, The Weathermen, Leak Bros); YOSHI, 19, Japanese singer and actor, traffic collision.
4: Nicole Josy, 76, Belgian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1973), fall.
3: Gerd Dudek, 84, German saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist; Noel McKoy, 62, British soul singer.
2: Atilio Stampone, 96, Argentine pianist, composer and arranger.
1: Tsuneo Fukuhara, 89, Japanese composer and music producer; Takeoff, 28, American rapper (Migos) and songwriter (“Versace”, “MotorSport”), shot; Joseph Tarsia, 88, American recording engineer and studio owner (Sigma Sound Studios).
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Jeff Cook, Co-Founder of Country Band Alabama, Dies at 73 // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
