{"id":115782,"date":"2022-11-11T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115782"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:27:17","slug":"guitarist-and-alabama-co-founder-jeff-cook-dead-at-73-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115782","title":{"rendered":"Guitarist and Alabama Co-Founder Jeff Cook Dead at 73 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115782\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-115783 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221108175303-01-jeff-cook-alabama-071391-restricted-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221108175303-01-jeff-cook-alabama-071391-restricted-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221108175303-01-jeff-cook-alabama-071391-restricted.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician Jeff Cook, co-founder of the country band Alabama, passed away November 7, 2022, at his home in Destin, Florida. While his exact cause of death is unknown, Cook battled Parkinson\u2019s disease, having been diagnosed in 2012. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, Cook co-founded the band Wildcountry, with his cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, and in 1977 the band\u2019s name was changed to Alabama. The band\u2019s biggest success was during the 1980s, having over 27 number one hits and producing seven multi-platinum albums. Their collection of singles includes \u201cTennessee River\u201d, \u201cLove in the First Degree\u201d, \u201cMountain Music\u201d, \u201cDixieland Delight\u201d, \u201cAll American Woman\u201d, \u201cAngels Among Us\u201d and \u201cSong of the South\u201d. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Alabama disbanded, Cook found success as a solo artist, producing ten studio albums and he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Jeff Cook\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Musician Jeff Cook, co-founder of the country band Alabama, passed away November 7, 2022, at his home in Destin, Florida. While his exact cause of death is unknown, Cook battled Parkinson\u2019s disease, having been diagnosed in 2012. He was 73. In 1972, Cook co-founded the band Wildcountry, with his cousins Randy Owen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[29816],"class_list":["post-115782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-guitarist-and-alabama-co-founder-jeff-cook-dead-at-73-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115782"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}