Here's Peter's new video, featuring Greer Stadium, a vintage Sounds jersey and plenty of toddler shots. Something for everyone!
I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Children's Album! You can hear the songs at www.songsoffoxhollow.com.
Produced by Peter Cooper and Eric Brace, the CD is a celebration of country music songwriting legend Tom T. Hall's 1974 album of songs for children of all ages. The songs on the album were performed by Tom T. Hall, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Duane Eddy, Bobby Bare, Peter Cooper, Eric Brace & Last Train Home, Jim Lauderdale, Elizabeth Cook & Tim Carroll, Gary Bennett, Mark & Mike (Mark Horn & Mike "Supe" Granda), Jon Byrd, Tommy Cash, Bobby Bare, Fayssoux Starling McLean, and Baker Maultsby. The band included Lloyd Green on pedal steel guitar, Jen Gunderman on keyboards, piano, and accordion, Mike Bub on bass, and Mark Horn on drums.
The album was recorded at Tom T. and Dixie Hall's Fox Hollow farm. Engineers were Richard McLaurin, Alex McCollough, Troy Engle, and Adam Bednarik. It was mixed by Adam Bednarik at House of David and mastered by Alex McCollough at Yes Master in Nashville. Original album artwork was created by Julie Sola, with CD design by Bill Thompson.
I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow is a co-release of Red Beet Records and the Country Music Hall of Fame's CMF Records. The Grammy Award winners will be announced on February 12, 2012.
Just in time for Tom T. Hall’s 75th birthday, Peter Cooper and Eric Brace have assembled the perfect cast to pay tribute to country music’s greatest storytelling songwriter. Gathered in the recording studio at Tom T.’s Fox Hollow farm, the group put their own spin on the Country Music Hall of Famer’s most beloved work, his 1974 album, Songs of Fox Hollow.
Indie label Red Beet Records has joined with the Country Music Hall of Fame’s CMF Records for the May 24 release of a new children’s classic, I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow. The album features Peter and Eric, and includes musical contributions from Duane Eddy, Bobby Bare, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Fayssoux McLean, Tommy Cash, Elizabeth Cook & Tim Carroll, Gary Bennett, Mark & Mike and Jon Byrd. Tom T. himself lends his vocals to a new song he and Dixie Hall wrote just for the occasion.
The original Songs of Fox Hollow was born one long-ago summer, when two young nephews of Tom T. and Dixie Hall spent the summer roaming the farm and asking Tom T. a host of questions about the land and the animals. To the kids, Fox Hollow was a place of activity and enchantment, and pretty soon Tom T.’s answers began to rhyme. The record that came about offers kids laughter, melody, and lessons in kindness, care, and conservation. For adults, it offers the same, as well as a welcome window into kids’ thoughts and feelings.
When it was released in 1974, Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow produced two No. 1 hits, "I Love" and "I Care," and the album entered the consciousness of a generation. Recorded over three magical days at Fox Hollow - the farm that inspired the original album and is still home to Tom T. and Dixie - I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow is a gem of Americana music, a new classic for kids and adults alike.
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper lay down a Herb Pedersen tune while aboard the Music Fog / Celebrity Coaches bus at Folk Alliance in Memphis. (2/20/10)
In the new issue of Nashville Arts & Entertainment magazine, Peter is named one of Nashville's "10 Most Interesting People," along Titans quarterback Kerry Collins, financial guru Dave Ramsey, American Idol contestant Mandisa, Nashville symphony conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, rock band Kings of Leon (actually, there are four of them, so it's really more like Nashville's 13 Most Interesting People, but still...) and other notables.
"At first, I thought something fishy was going on, because I am certainly not more interesting than Tom T. Hall," Peter said. "But then I remembered that Tom T. actually lives just outside of town, in Brentwood rather than in Nashville. And so I'm very pleased and humbled to be included on this list. I would like to congratulate the others on the list, and I wish to encourage those who didn't make it. Tim McGraw, Emmylou Harris, Kenny Chesney, John Prine and Al Gore: Keep on working, and you too may one day be considered this interesting."
Peter was also named best music writer in the Nashville Scene reader's poll for the eighth straight year, and his "715 (For Hank Aaron)" was included in Juli Thanki's list of five best baseball songs on www.the9513.com, along with tunes from Steve Goodman, Todd Snider, The Gibson Brothers and Alabama.
This fall, Peter and duo partner Eric Brace have shared stages with Nanci Griffith, Chris Smither and others, and played to a packed house at Nashville's Station Inn with an all-star band that included legendary steel guitar man Lloyd Green and legendary Dobro player Mike Auldridge. That band has also been in the studio with Peter and Eric, working on a follow-up to the You Don't Have To Like Them Both album. Peter and Lloyd Green have also completed an adventurous new album (due out in 2010), with help from Rodney Crowell, Kim Carnes, Fayssoux McLean, Julie Lee and others.
After a trip to Lambeau Field to witness Brett Favre's return to Green Bay, Peter will be hitting the road with Eric for shows in the midwest, the Atlantic seaboard and the cross-Atlantic seaboard (Ireland!).
Peter's Mission Door album is the subject of a Nashville Public Radio report, with commentary from Peter, Lloyd Green and new Country Music Hall of Famer Tom T. Hall. Click on the NPR logo or the link below to hear the story, which comes courtesy of WPLN's Kim Clark.
After an eventful tour of Holland and Germany, Peter is back in Nashville, working on songs, writing stories for The Tennessean and preparing for June shows in Virginia, Wisconsin and Ohio.
I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Children's Album! You can hear the songs at 
Peter's Mission Door album is the subject of a