JEFFERSON COKER
Summerville, South Carolina, United States | SELF
Music
Press
The Jefferson Coker Band brings a big slice of Americana - Live5News/com
"Jefferson Coker is a unique musician with a hell of a life story. He manages to imbue his songs with the joy found in rock's most elegant records and with the sadness found in the most heartbreaking blues and country masterpieces." - The Charleston City Paper, Ballard Lessemann
Radio.SC - Radio.SC
Shaun Price - LowCountry Underdground Magazine
Discography
Single
One More Notch, 2007
independant release, Jefferson Coker
Ep
Who I Was & Who I Am Now 2008
independant release, Jefferson Coker
LP
FREEDOM 2010
Sweet Gum Productions, Jefferson Coker
mulitple tracks from EP streaming on Radio.SC
Spahn Ranch Radio Hour, SphanRanch.com
CACH radio Alberta CA
Photos
Bio
Born July 25th, 1974, the youngest of three children, in the small town of Pozzouli, just outside of Naples Italy, on the Mediterranian coast. Born with a Lymphatic Cyst the size of a small watermelon, he was flown from Italy to Germany, and then onto the United States by the age of nine days... he was dying!
Ill for most of his childhood, he would spend most of his days with his mother, sleeping on the breakroom floor of her work. Next door was a music store, and when he was well enough, he would emerse himself, day after day, in the instruments. Just before his ninth birthday, he received his first guitar, and while sitting on shop floor plucking away.. being turned onto the sounds of everything from The Who, to Sabbath, to Chet Atkins and Earl Scruggs from Marfin Gaye and Aretha Franklin to James Taylor and Bob Dylan. Music was something he found, that would take his mind off of the pain that had become his daily companion.
. In the Mid nineties, he moved to Seattle Washington, were he was introduced to a new audience, and a new way of thinking, writing, and hearing music.
Moving back to his hometown of Charleston in the spring of 2007, with a refined sound, back to his roots, relying on deep honest lyrics, coupled with a voice that is being coined, "The Most Soulful / Powerful Voice" to come out of his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina in 20 years, with a mix of blues, country, funk, americana, & jazz.
Signed with Inde label Sweet Gum Records in association with JEFFERSON COKER productions in 2008
Now with his 1st full length cd to be released late October 2010, airplay via internet, locally owned / private / college radio stations, and simple word of mouth, a movement is spreading from the south... Across the U.S....
has multiple appearences on LowCountry Live ABC(4)
Feature Article June 2008 Issue of Low Country Underground Magazine
Cover Story, December 2009 Issue of Low Country Underground Magazine
Feature Article, Greenville Chronicles, Metro Mix, July 2010
Influences:
Hank Williams, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Hank Williams Jr., Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, The Beatles
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