Roger Cook is a renowned singer/songwriter, best known for hit songs such as "You've Got Your Troubles," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing,” and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.” He's the first and so far only British songwriter to enter the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York in 2009. He sang on some of Elton John's earliest recordings. He co-wrote Don Williams' "I Believe in You,” and George Strait's "I Just Want to Dance with You" with his friend. John Prine. Roger and some other of his friends will be performing August 15 to benefit Our Place Nashville in memory of Avi Poster – a good friend of the Cook family’s, Our Place Nashville’s former chairman, and the life force behind so many social justice causes in Nashville over the past two decades. Our Place Nashville empowers adults with developmental disabilities by providing homes that affordable, work tjat is meaningful and inclusive communities in which to life. Tonight’s performers are:
Galen Crew | Sleepyhead | Princess | Fragrance
Earl Bud Lee | Friends in Low Places | Who are You When I’m Not Looking | One Night at a Time
Shawn Camp | Two Piña Coladas | How Long Gone| River of Love |Would You Go with Me
Victoria Banks | When You Can Fly |Barefoot Girl | Hello Heart
Larry Brown | Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak | Knock Three Times
Tony Arata | Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame | The Dance | Here I Am | I’m Holding My Own | Dreaming with My Eyes Open
Billy Prine with Scarlett Egan | John Prine Tribute Tour 2023 | Young Man Old Man Blues (Prine) | Remind Me (Egan)
Leslie Satcher | When God Fearin’ Women Get the Blues | Troubador
SunKat | I Miss Tom Petty | Hey JoJo | Mississippi Girl (Adam Shoenfeld)