Grammy nominees Eric Brace and Peter Cooper have created a body of work that reflects their journalistic sensibilities, a love of harmony and wry humor, and their deep respect for the masters they've played with. Brace is a former music journalist and is best known as the frontman for Last Train Home, while Cooper (currently a music journalist), is a well-regarded Nashville-based singer-songwriter and session player. Their most recent project, producing the Grammy-nominated I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition,” in USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times, and was named a Top 5 Americana album by Rich Kienzle in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Brace and Cooper are touring partners and have collaborated on two previous albums. On Master Sessions the pair fronted a band that featured pedal steel guitar legend Lloyd Green and dobro master Mike Auldridge, and the album made numerous critics’ Best-of 2010 lists. Their first record together, You Don’t Have To Like Them Both, was a Top Ten album on the Roots, Americana, and Folk charts.
After just having played several dates in April with John Prine, the duo head to Southern California for dates in Altadena and Ventura in late May. (details below) On tour, Brace and Cooper’s shows are engaging and funny and reflect the pair's easy camaraderie. They can command the stage of a concert hall or festival with the same ease and intimate feel they bring to a coffeehouse. Along with Prine, the duo has opened on large stages for Nanci Griffith, Don Williams, Todd Snider, Rodney Crowell, Iris Dement, Chris Smither, Dan Tyminsky, Travis Tritt & Jerry Douglas, among others. They've shared the stage with Tom T. Hall, Jim Lauderdale, Suzy Bogguss, Dan Navarro, Marshall Chapman, Kim Carnes, Emmylou Harris, and others.
PRAISE FOR THE DUO:
“I was immediately enthralled with the show, they started out with “Wait a Minute” and the harmony vocals were completely mind blowing. If I took nothing else away from my weekend spent with these two it would be that they may have been put here to sing with one another.”—Live Review Broken Jukebox
“Brace and Cooper are not only fine singers, but excellent songwriters as well.”—Vintage Guitar
"Eric Brace & Peter Cooper are great songwriters and, more important, great people to spend an evening with. Harmonies, songs, humor and storytelling - these guys are the best." -- Steve Stagner, Rock Garden Concerts
CALIFORNIA TOUR DATES:
-Tuesday, May 29 @ The Coffee Gallery Backstage 8pm/$15
2029 Lake Ave Altadena, CA (626) 398-7917 www.coffeegallery.com
-Thursday, May 31 @ Zoey's Café 8pm/ $10
185 East Santa Clara Street Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 652-1137
HOUSE CONCERTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
-Friday, June 1 - San Diego, CA/House Concert
Contact Kevin at tortoog@cox.net for reservations and directions
-Saturday, June 2 - Lomita (LA), CA/House Concert 2PM
To attend, email helen@cacheagency.com
For more information: http://redbeetrecords.com/
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