Jazz Articles about Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper: Oh Really!? / Do I Know You? / Trout Steel / Places I know / The Machine Gun Co. With Mike Cooper

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 28, 2019

“Riverboat captain, they called my name / Time to sing my song / I didn't know that the song was wrong / Don't sing that way again." These lyrics from the song “Trout Steel" are penned by guitarist, singer and songwriter, Mike Cooper, and they point directly to the iconoclastic nature of his art. While he is often conveniently pigeonholed as a blues guitarist, Cooper is so much more, and he often sings the “wrong" songs, venturing ...