Spade cooley biography of michaels
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Mike Cooley (musician)
American singer-songwriter
Musical artist
John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals.[1] He is a member of the grupp Drive-By Truckers.
Background
[edit]Cooley received his first guitar at age 8, spending time with a local bluegrass musician to pick up the instrument.[2] In 1985, he formed the punk-influenced band Adam's House katt with Patterson Hood. The band was chosen as a top ten Best Unsigned grupp by a Musician contest in the late 1980s. After the end of Adam's House Cat, Cooley and Hood performed as a duo under the name "Virgil Kane." While living in Auburn, Alabama they started a new band, "Horsepussy," before splitting for a few years. It was during this split that Hood moved to Athens, Georgia and began forming what would become Drive-By Truckers with the avsikt of luring Cooley back into the fold.[3]
With the Driv
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Graded on a Curve:
Spade Cooley &
the Western Swing
Dance Gang,
Shame on You
Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, nationally known television personality, and cold-blooded killer—you’ll have to look really hard to find a resume more varied than that of Donnell Clyde “Spade” Cooley. And you’ll also have to look even harder to find an album with a more appropriate title than Shame on You, seeing as how Cooley brutally murdered his wife in 1961 by pounding her head on the floor and then putting out a lit cigarette on her body to make sure she was dead. As if that weren’t horrifying enough, he forced his teenage daughter to witness the murder, saying, “You’re going to watch me kill her.”
It has become almost impossible—and appropriately so—to write dispassionately about Spade Cooley, the so-called King of Western Swing, given Spade Cooley the private citizen’s status as a convicted (and particularly bestial) killer. Cold-blooded murder will always be what C
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Spade Cooley
American singer-songwriter and convicted murderer (1910–69)
Spade Cooley | |
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Spade Cooley (1944) | |
| Born | Donnell Clyde Cooley (1910-12-17)December 17, 1910 Grand, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | November 23, 1969(1969-11-23) (aged 58) Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Other names | King of Western Swing |
| Criminal status | Paroled - died before grant of parole enacted |
| Criminal charge | First-degree murder |
| Penalty | Life in prison |
| Victims | Ella Mae Cooley (née Evans) |
| Date | April 3, 1961 |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Western swing |
| Occupation(s) | Big band leader, actor, television personality |
| Instrument(s) | Fiddle, vocals |
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| Labels | Westernair, Columbia, RCA, Decca, OKeh |
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Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American Western swingmusician, big band leader, actor, television personality and convicted m