Ray Cooper Email and Phone Number

Ray Cooper is an English/ Scottish/ Irish, and now Swedish, singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist.Moving between rock, punk, pop and world music, and working as a singer, bass guitar player and cellist, hooked up with Oysterband in 1988. In 2012 they won 3 awards from BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for best group, best album and best traditional track and were dubbed by fROOTS magazine as one of the 3 'Icons Of Folk'. Cooper moved to Sweden in 2000, went solo in 2013 and has since been touring Europe extensively. 
Album Releases:Tales of Love War and Death by Hanging 2010.
.Palace Of Tears 2013. Between The Golden Age & The Promised Land 2018.Land of Heroes 2021Even For A Shadow 2024Land of Heroes and Even For A Shadow were both nominated as best album in the folk and singer-songwriter category for the German Music Critics Prize 'Pries Der Deutsche Shallplatten Kritik'.Influences; 'T-Bone Burnett, Ennio Morricone, Rick Rubin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, June Tabor, the folk music of Sweden and Scotland, America and everything I have heard'. On stage he plays cello, mandolin, piano, guitar and harmonica.......'I have no home town, I think of myself as a north European now. A romantic. I look back on history with the hope to learn something about the present, to catch the repeating patterns. I get my ideas from memories, dreams, history books, biographies, online news outlets, conversations I remember or imagine, I have no method. Trad tunes weave their way in and out because they are just so strong and are as much a part of my cultural roots as rock 'n roll.'https://linktr.ee/RayCooper