Peter Cooper & Eric Brace House Concert

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1 Live chat
2 Show photos and MP3 recordings
3 Biography
- 3.1 Peter Cooper
- 3.2 Eric Brace
4 Quotes
5 Video
6 External Links

Peter Cooper & Eric Brace

Who: Peter Cooper & Eric Brace - ''“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist’s eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.” ~ Kris Kristofferson

Date: Friday, July 25th, 2008 / 7PM

Time: Doors open all day - music starts at 7PM - entire concert is webcast live.

Suggested in-house donation: $10 honor system - 100% of all proceeds generated go directly to the performer.

Where: The Whole Wheat Radio Palace in Talkeetna, Alaska. Click here for driving directions to Whole Wheat Radio in Talkeetna

Food: Some munchies are provided but if you'd like to bring desserts or other munchies either for yourself or to share, feel free.

Drink: Coffee, tea, non-alcoholic drinks provided. Otherwise, bring your own beer or wine. Please drink responsibly.

Kids: No kid care will be provided for this show - unless you bring it. Probably not a good show for small kids to attend anyway. But if you want to come and can't make other arrangements for the little ones, just make sure they are downstairs and don't disturb the adults in the audience. Thanks!

Contact: Jim Kloss at 733-2452

More Info: More general information about our cabin concerts can be found by clicking on this link If you cannot attend, remember that all of our cabin concerts are webcast live. Just click on the Listen (lo-fi) or Listen (med-fi) or Listen (hi-fi) links on the left-hand menu. In addition, if you can't make the concert, they are recorded and if the artist gives permission, the complete recording will be posted on this page within a few days of the show.

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Biography

Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper is the same guy who writes about music for the Nashville Tennessean and who appears as a talking head on CNN, CMT, MSNBC, the BBC, the Biography Channel and other outlets. He’s also a touring singer-songwriter and instrumentalist who has played on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman and Prairie Home Companion. His songs have been praised by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mojo, No Depression, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. Cooper has opened numerous tour dates for Todd Snider (and collaborated with Snider, singing harmonies, playing bass and co-writing a song on Snider’s brilliant "The Devil You Know" album) and worked in the studio with Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Lloyd Green, Ricky Skaggs and other luminaries. He recently produced Snider’s odds ’n’ sods album, Peace, Love and Anarchy. His own debut album is called Mission Door.

Cooper was five-years-old when he first caught a Kristofferson show. That was on an outdoor stage in Charlotte, NC, not too far from Cooper’s hometown of Spartanburg, SC. Something about the experience must have stuck, as Kristofferson’s wordplay and folk-inspired melodies became a touchstone. From there, it was on to Tom T. Hall, Mickey Newbury, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Bobby Bare, Guy Clark, Eric Taylor and others who managed emotional literacy without ever seeming unduly literary. That’s a tough trick. Takes awhile to learn, and then you have to figure out how to make it into something other than... well, than that same old trick. Reverence and mimicry are close musical cousins that should not marry. Shouldn’t even snuggle, really.

When Cooper gathered a collection of his favorite musicians at Nashville’s House of David studio – it’s a cool place, with a trap door in the floor that was built for Elvis Presley to come in and out without fans realizing he was in town – he sought to create something different. That kind of seeking begins with the songs but it doesn’t end there. Check this out: Mission Door isn’t a country album, but it has more steel guitar on it than anything released in ages. The steel comes courtesy of co-producer Lloyd Green, perhaps the most famed and important steel man in history. Green played on The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, on Charley Pride’s In Person: Live From Panther Hall album, and on beloved works by Paul McCartney, Don Williams, Nanci Griffith, Tammy Wynette and a slew of others. From his blistering solo on “All The Way To Heaven” to the staggering beauty of his parts on “Wine” and “Thin Wild Mercury,” Green is an elegant revolutionary, reinventing the instrument that he helped to dignify in the first place. He retired in the late 1980s and returned to session playing in the new century, and he has worked in his “second term” with Alan Jackson, Nanci Griffith, Steve Wariner and plenty of chart-toppers. “This album is the most intellectually and emotionally satisfying music I’ve been a part of since returning to the arena,” Green said. “It’s like a long lost relative of the Panther Hall album – there’s that much steel – and yet it’s like nothing I have heard. This one was as special to me as any I’ve been a part of.”

Eric Brace

Named Washington D.C.'s "Artist of the Year" in 2003, Last Train Home went full-time the same year. Its frontman, Eric Brace, is a former staff writer for The Washington Post where he was a columnist covering the local music and nightlife scene. Joining Eric in the core of LTH is bassist Jim Gray and drummer Martin Lynds, who have become a much-in-demand rhythm section since their move to Nashville in 2003. They’ve been the engine of this train since its first gig opening for the Waco Brothers at Washington’s Black Cat club in February, 1997.

Prior to Last Train Home, Eric played in several Washington area bands, including B-Time, the Beggars, and Kevin Johnson & the Linemen. He also ran a local rock label, Top Records, for many years, before focusing on his own music. It was in late 1996 that Eric began pulling together a band to record some of his songs. It was a part-time thing when the band’s debut, “Last Train Home,” was released in 1997 on the D.C. indie Adult Swim Records (run by Dischord Records co-owner and punk rock legend Jeff Nelson). In 1999, the band returned with the deeper and richer release, “True North.” With rave reviews coming in on a regular basis, the notion of going full-time was creeping in, and the band started touring the east coast more widely, and took a couple of trips to Nashville to play its music.

Instrument: Rhythm guitar, voice Born: Placerville, CA Sign: Pisces Turn-ons: Pernod, Mills Brothers. Turn-offs: None. He loves everything. Music Trivia: Played in a college bluegrass band in Boston (Mystic Valley Mountaineers) long ago, where he jammed with a young Bela Fleck up there. Ran Top Records, indie rock label in DC in late '80s, releasing an EP of his and Alan's band B-Time, as well as works by other bands like Frontier Theory, Carnival of Souls, Sleep of Reason, Young Caucasians.. learned a lot about being in debt. Played bass with Kevin Johnson & the Linemen in the early '90s.

Quotes

“The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.” - Tom T. Hall

“Triple five-stars!” - Todd Snider

"Brace's voice is one of the treasures of the whole [americana] genre, as is his band." -- MOJO magazine, UK