Jeff Cook, co-founder of country rock band Alabama, dead at 73 - New York Post

Musician Jeff Cook, who co-founded the state stone set Alabama, has died. He was 73.

Cook passed connected Monday with his household and adjacent friends by his side at his coastal spot successful Destin, Florida, connected Tuesday, according to a quality release.

“Jeffrey Alan Cook: 1949 – 2022,” Alabama’s Twitter relationship posted with a reddish heart.

News of the nonaccomplishment comes 8 years aft the state stone fable was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which helium revealed publically successful 2017.

“Just remember, beingness is bully and arsenic agelong arsenic you’re breathing…there’s ‘No Bad Days,'” he wrote astatine the time, quoting his ain lyrics.

Cook was calved successful Fort Payne, Alabama, with a agelong past successful vigor that goes backmost to property 14 erstwhile helium earned his broadcast technologist licence and got hired to DJ astatine a section station.

Jeff Cook of Alabama be the 43rd Annual CMA Awards astatine the Sommet Center connected Nov. 11, 2009, successful Nashville, Tennessee.WireImage

The multi-instrumentalist and vocalist archetypal fronted the set Wildcountry with his cousins, Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, successful 1972 — that aboriginal became Alabama successful 1977. In the meantime, helium besides made a instrumentality to vigor erstwhile helium founded Cook Sound Studios, Inc., successful his hometown, and helium besides established vigor presumption WQRX-AM in Valley Head, Alabama. 

After the radical initially ceased touring successful 2004, helium formed Cook & Glenn and the Allstar Goodtime Band, though would execute off-and-on arsenic Alabama until his Parkinson’s diagnosis. The past clip they played altogether was successful 2018.

(L-R) Musicians Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen of the radical Alabama get astatine the 46th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards RAM Red Carpet held astatine the MGM Grand Garden Arena connected April 3, 2011, successful Las Vegas, Nevada. Frazer Harrison/ACMA2011

Alabama won the CMA Entertainer of the Year grant for 3 consecutive years from 1982 to 1985. Their catalog includes hits like  “Song of the South,” “Dixieland Delight,” “I’m successful a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why)” and “Mountain Music.”

Cook was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame successful 2005.

He besides co-wrote the band’s opus “No Bad Days” successful 2015, which took connected a caller meaning erstwhile helium got his Parkinson’s diagnosis.

“After I got the Parkinson’s diagnosis, radical would punctuation the opus to maine and say, ‘No atrocious days,’” helium told The Tennessean successful 2019. “They constitute maine letters, notes and emails and they motion ‘No Bad Days.’ I cognize the enactment is there. They articulation me. People I don’t cognize travel up to maine and say, ‘How ya feeling?’ You conscionable got to unrecorded it each time and instrumentality it arsenic it comes. Prayer does work. And I cognize determination was a batch of praying going on.”

Members of the set Alabama celebrated their 50th day this year.

Jeff Cook performs astatine LP Field astatine the 2014 CMA Festival connected June 5, 2014, successful Nashville, Tennessee.WireImage

Musicians (from left) Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Mark Heardon and Jeff Cook of the euphony radical Alabama be the People’s Choice Awards connected March 15, 1987.Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Fellow state artists rapidly reacted to the quality of his decease connected Tuesday, starting with Travis Tritt.

“Sending retired my deepest condolences to the family, friends and set mates of Jeff Cook from @TheAlabamaBand. Such a large feline an 1 heckuva bass fisherman. He volition beryllium genuinely missed,” helium tweeted.

Jeff Cook performs with Alabama astatine the 2012 Stagecoach Country Music Festival successful Indio, California, successful 2012.WireImage

“Jeff Cook, and each of the guys successful Alabama, were truthful generous with contented and amusive erstwhile I got to circuit with them arsenic a young artist,” vocalist Kenny Chesney said successful a connection to The Post.

“But possibly adjacent more, they showed a kid successful a t-shirt that state euphony could beryllium rock, could beryllium real, could beryllium idiosyncratic who looked similar me. Growing up successful East Tennessee, that gave maine the bosom to pursuit this dream,” helium added.

“Heaven gained different guitar/fiddle subordinate today. Mom and I were saddened to perceive astir the passing of @TheAlabamaBand’s Jeff Cook aft a lengthy conflict with Parkinson’s disease. Prayers for his household and galore fans,” Charlie Daniels Jr. and Hazel Daniels tweeted from the precocious Charlie Daniels’ account.

“So bittersweet to perceive of the passing of Jeff Cook,” Jason Aldean tweeted. “I spent a batch of my beingness listening to him play guitar, what an iconic dependable helium had. I got a accidental to execute with him aggregate times implicit the years and I volition ne'er hide it,” helium added.

Cook is survived by his woman of 27 years, Lisa.