Jeff Cook Said This Before Dying😭😭
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- Jeff Cook, Co-Founder of Country Supergroup Alabama, Dead at 73 After 10-Year Parkinson's Battle
In a touching statement like you saw in the video, Jeff said
"This disease robs you of your coordination, your balance, and causes tremors," Cook wrote in a 2017 statement about his condition
Jeff Cook, co-founder of country music supergroup Alabama, has died. He was 73 years old.
According to a press release issued by Cook's representatives, the iconic guitarist and Country Music Hall of Fame member died on Monday at his Destin, Florida home while surrounded by family and close friends.
While his exact cause of death is unknown, Cook long battled Parkinson's disease and was diagnosed with the condition in 2012. Five years later, he released a statement announcing his diagnosis and revealing he'd be stepping back from touring with Alabama due to its effects.
Born in Fort Payne, Alabama on Aug. 27, 1949, Cook started playing guitar and keyboards as a young teenager before working as a local radio DJ and later owning radio and TV stations - all before graduating high school.
He then went to Gadsden State Community College to study electronic technology and admired how working in radio combined his interests in music and electronics, per the press release.
Cook and two of his cousins, guitarist Randy Owen and bassist Teddy Gentry, formed a band in the late '60s before officially co-founding Alabama a decade later. They released three albums in the '70s - Wild Country, Deuces Wild and Alabama Band No. 3 - that largely flew under the radar before signing to RCA Records to craft their major label debut, 1980's My Home's in Alabama.
Over the course of their career, the band notched 36 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart including 1982's "Mountain Music," 1983's "Dixieland Delight," 1988's "Song of the South," 1990's "Jukebox in My Mind" and 1992's "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)," among others.
Alabama embarked on a farewell tour in 2003 and 2004, with Owen telling The Tennesseean in 2011, "I just think everybody needed some time. After the last show … I was, just, gosh, just so wore out."
After a tornado hit the band's home state in 2011, however, Alabama reunited for a benefit concert that raised over $2 million for the cause and realized they missed performing together. "I guess we realized that maybe we missed the playing … and five or six years had gone by and we were like, 'Maybe that wasn't as bad as we remember it being,'" Gentry told The Tennesseean at the time.
The band began touring again in 2013 and released Southern Drawl, their first album of new music since 2007 and most recent project, two years later. In 2017, Cook announced he'd be performing less due to his battle with Parkinson's disease.
"This disease robs you of your coordination, your balance, and causes tremors," Cook wrote in a statement at the time. "For me, this has made it extremely frustrating to try and play guitar, fiddle, or sing. I've tried not to burden anyone with the details of my condition because I do not want the music to stop or the party to end, and that won't change no matter what. Let me say, I'm not calling it quits, but sometimes our bodies dictate what we have to do, and mine is telling me it's time to take a break and heal."
As Cook took a step back, Alabama continued touring. Earlier this year, he reunited with the band for a 50th-anniversary tour. Currently, Alabama has a string of North American shows scheduled through August 2023.
Cook is survived by his wife of 27 years, Lisa Cook, mother Betty Cook, brother David Cook, Crystal Cook, father-in-law Jerrial Williams and brother-in-law Randy Williams, among several nieces and nephews.
Rest in power king
😢 Jeff Cook, what a legend!
R I P Jeff Cook, incredible musician and fine singer.
RIP. We the people around the Ft. Payne area are proud of you guys.
Rest in peace!!! Prayers to everyone!!!❤💔❤
Rest in peace Jeff, you gave to so many people! God Speed!
Rip in peace Jeff Cook
Alabama thank you for all the music. RIP Jeff Cook. Cheers from Canada.
Learned to play guitar from this man..❤️❤️
RIP Jeff you are truly missed
Saw Alabama , 7 x in the 80's and 90's just love them . RIP JEFF , condolences and prayers to the family and Alabama family
I seen him in the fishing section at the old Walmart in Ft Payne when I was a kid. A great memory.
I used to live about a half mile down the road from Jeff in Fort Payne. My dad ran their tour merchandising for 20 years.
Jeff,I loved you man!!!!! You guys really are awesome. R. I. P. Never be Forgotten!!!!!
I yelled aloud in a restaurant when I read he passed. Shocked me so bad. This band has been a big inspiration in my life. I’ve sung many of their songs on my channel. But I know, no one is better than Teddy Jeff and Randy… RIP Jeff…
There was only ONE Alabama because their music proved it..and they were the best of the best..May God bless you all🙏
This is a heartbreaking video and it's painful to see Jeff in this kind of condition before his death. The decade long battle with Parkinson's has really taken its toll. Thank God I am old enough to remember 95% of Alabama's success and Jeff's incredible career and was able to see the group in concert back in their prime. We will never see another supergroup that achieved as much as Alabama did, RIP Jeff Cook. You will be sorely missed.
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RIP jeff you are sadly missed my prayers go out to the family and to Alabama
I'm most sad at the death of Mr. Jeff Cook. I'm glad to have had him as a friend. He was a most talented musician. He never let fame and fortune go to his head. He was always the same person every time we met. GOD BLESS YOU Jeff Cook.
as a kid in Alabama class of 84 , I grew up listening to Alabama my whole life , I’m now 55 , this really saddens me! I didn’t realize Jeff was in his 70s that’s crazy to me! Where did the time go??? RIP Jeff …
HOME WITH JESUS ! MAY THE GOOD LORD COMFORT HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FANS ! 🙏✝️🙏
RIP ..I also loved ALABAMA
One of the all time country pickers ever, Im a percussionist in a country band in California, I seen Alabama in 1979 at the circle star theater in Redwood City California, best concert ive ever seen. Heartfelt Prayers To Entire Family and Friends and Colleagues, Blessed Are Those Who Mourn, For They Shall Be Comforted, A true icon in country music. 🎸🙏🕊.
Christmas in Dixie what a Great song one of many Great songs Alabama had. Rest my friend another chapter of Great music closes.
I've been a fan since 1983. When I heard I was in shock and disbelief. I cried so hard when I realized it was true. It's still hard to believe you're gone...but you're now out of pain and playing that fiddle in Heaven. Thank you for the music and memories Jeff....Rest in Peace 💖
The legacy of the music he leaves us... I'm sad he has left us...but so glad he left us so much....your Star will continue to shine brightly jeff
Rest In Peace Jeff Cooke from. Huge Alabama fan (from their starting journey) in Toronto Ontario Canada. My condolences to Jeff's family and friends and of course the other members of Alabama
So very sorry for your loss PRAYING for your family and friends ❤. RIP JEFF AND GOD BLESS YOU
Rest in peace, Jeff. You took a big part of my childhood with you.
Live in Everlasting Peace!!!
RIP JEFF COOK!
Sure going to miss you Jeff Cook. You were such a big part of this musical group that I grew up listening to. May God bless your family, including your musical family and give them the strength they will need going forward to get through this sad time. You and the music you were part of will live on forever and the only comfort I can find right now is knowing you are no longer suffering on this earth. God bless you my brother and may we meet in heaven.
Thank you for this ❤you’re right every Alabama song & every memory
Condolences to Mr. Cook's family and the Alabama band members
So very sorry to learn of this sad news. May he rest in peace. God be with Jeffs family and bandmates!!
RIP Jeff. You were One In The World
RIP Jeff
RIP JEFF. YOU'RE PLAYING YOUR BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IN HEAVEN. YOU ARE MISSED BY ALL OF YOUR FANS AND FAMILY. ✝️😥🕊🕊
RIP JEFF COOK. 11-9-2022
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One more great musician gone . R.I.P.
RIP
I will be there. I'm in Fort Payne. His mom is well. I hope to see the best.
I grew up at young age and this was my favorite band💜🤗 they are so real singing songs that mattered
It’s so sad 😳😭😭😭😭😭💔💔
I cried and had to turn off when CMA awards group own mention 😮💔😭 I just can’t believe it. Reminds me of happier time in life and as child. My dad and mom loved this group and they too are gone. 😭💔😳. So many talented artists have died last 4 years and I’m so sad
Parkinson’s is so awful! My prayers are for his family and group and us as fans morn but we will continue to be fans forever and their music and videos and concerts
I worked for Jeff cook in his restaurant back in gadsden Alabama "Jeff cooks wear house "
RIPJeffCookYOUR WILL ALLWAY BE LOVED AND MISS BY US all you are the greatest of them all we will miss you but never for get you for all you gave to all my heart goes out to your family and friends God be with you all 😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pore guy RIP
Jeff Cook passed away Monday. Mr. Cook is famous for playing guitar for the music group called: ALABAMA; Mr. Cook is a founding member of the music group called ALABAMA. Mr. Cook supplied vocals and music orchestration and scored arrangements for most all of the ALABAMA groups songs. His music arrangements prove to be an exemplar presentation of working "rhythmic meter" with a harmonic setting laced with melodic interest weaving and blending through the harmonic setting. His harmonic settings do well support and uphold the melodic pitching.
Rest easy Jeff. You definitely are in a better place now. Jeff was one of the first guitarists are tried to mimick as a youngster. So many use Hendrix and the rockers as influences but not me, it was the country boys and Jeff was definitely one of them. RIP
Parkinson's is caused by copper poisoning. I wonder if rubbing those copper Dean Markley strings all those years made his copper high?
So shitty of you to ambush him like that. You will have to live with that.
When was this? No date?
Assuming within the past several weeks at the most. Unfortunately, Jeff's health, mental and physical state had dramatically gone downhill even by this point. He is almost hard to recognize and understand in this video.
Too bad he take that opportunity
to apologize and say he felt guilty
for the way all three of them,
especially "Lying" Randy Owen,
screwed the living hell out of
their longtime drummer,
Mark Herndon.
What is y’all’s favorite Alabama band songs?