Mike Cooley

Mike Cooley is primarily known as a guitarist, vocalist, and occasional banjo player for Drive-By Truckers and shares songwriting duties with Patterson Hood. The band formed in the mid-90s in Athens, Georgia and blend Southern rock with Americana. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Cooley received his first music lessons at age eight from Al Lester, a Muscle Shoals bluegrass artist who performed with such luminaries as Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Bill Monroe, and Boz Scaggs. Lester even had his own TV show, and it was there that Cooley made some of his first public performances....