{"id":21781,"date":"2022-11-09T05:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=21781"},"modified":"2022-11-09T05:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:29:05","slug":"alabama-founding-member-jeff-cook-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/11\/alabama-founding-member-jeff-cook-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Founding Member Jeff Cook Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama guitarist and fiddle player Jeff Cook lost his battle with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease on Monday, November 7th.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away surrounded by family and friends at his beach house in Destin, Florida. He was 73.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CktxStDO-bw\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Jeff and his cousins, Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, formed the band over 50 years ago in Fort Payne, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re one of the biggest groups in country music history, selling 80 million albums and charting 33 Number One hits.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Musicians Hall of Fame, the Fiddlers Hall of Fame, and was a Gibson Guitarist of the Year honoree.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s survived by his wife of 27 years, Lisa.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, the family has requested <a href=\"https:\/\/thejeffandlisacookfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donations be made to the Jeff and Lisa Cook Foundation<\/a>, which helps educate and assist people with Parkinson&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a classic moment of him tearing through the fiddle solo in the song &#8220;If You&#8217;re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)&#8221; from Farm Aid 1986.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAFxxMvK1jI&amp;t=130s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama guitarist and fiddle player Jeff Cook lost his battle with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease on Monday, November 7th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[163,4263,2590,4264],"class_list":["post-21781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alabama","tag-fiddle","tag-jeff-cook","tag-parkinsons-disease"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 04:19:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/11\/alabama-founding-member-jeff-cook-has-passed-away\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21782,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions\/21782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}