On Monday, Oct. 10, The Listening Room Cafe will host five songwriters: Jeff Cohen, Roger Cook, Siobhan Kennedy, John Keats, and the upcoming winner of The Road To Nashville – Liverpool International Song Contest.
Date: Monday, October 10, 2022
Venue: The Listening Room Cafe
Address: 618 4th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37210
Time: 8:30pm
Price: $10
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3Rp4P3q
JEFF COHEN
Jeff Cohen is a six-time BMI Award-winning and Grammy-nominated songwriter, producer and publisher based in Nashville, whose songs have appeared on over 20 million albums sold, over 100 placements in TV/Film and over 10 million video games. Jeff’s songs have been recorded by critically acclaimed artists including The Band Perry (Postcard From Paris), Evan and Jaron (Crazy For This Girl), Big and Rich (Holy Water). His work has also been featured in movies and TV shows such as Paw Patrol, The Simpson’s, Saturday Night Live, Princess Diaries and many more.
He often co-writes alongside Jamie Hartman, Sacha Skabek, Kara DioGuardi, Liz Rose, Jeff Trott, Kristian Bush and James T. Slater. Jeff is a Board Member of NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) and Board Member of Inspired Nation Foundation founded by Kara DioGuardi. His resume also includes work as an executive at BMI.
ROGER COOK
Roger Cook is among pop music’s most successful and prolific songwriters. He is best known for his collaborations with Roger Greenaway, including the million-selling hit I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing. Cook met fellow Bristolian Roger Greenaway in 1964 when they were members of the harmony group The Kestrels. Cook and Greenaway then had a brief but successful recording career as David and Johnathan, scoring hits with a cover version of the Beatles’ Michelle, and their self-penned Lovers of the World Unite.
They wrote their first hit for other artists in 1965, with UK group The Fortunes taking Cook and Greenaway’s You’ve Got Your Troubles to chart success both in the UK and USA. Cook is also noted as a member of 70’s group Blue Mink sharing the vocal lead with Madeline Bell. Blue Mink saw notable chart successes, mostly co-written by Cook, including Melting Pot and Banner Man. Cook had received five Ivor Novello awards.
In 1977, Cook moved to Nashville and became the first and so far only British songwriter to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2009, his musical influence was again acknowledged when he was inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York. Roger Cook’s numerous hit songs include: I Believe in You (Don Williams), I Just Want To Dance With You (George Strait) and Melting Pot (Blue Mink).
SIOBHAN MAHER KENNEDY
Siobhan Maher Kennedy reaffirms the connections between the US and the UK, roots-country and pop, and Liverpool and Nashville. She hit big in the late 1980s with Liverpudlian folk-pop band, River City People. Their EMI single made the UK Top 20, leading to Top Of The Pops appearances, national and international touring and opening for Fleetwood Mac at Wembley, Tina Turner at Woburn Abbey, with HRH Princess Diana in attendance.
After two more UK Top 40 singles, Siobhan formed the duo Kindred Spirit with Debbi Peterson from the Bangles. That called for recording sessions in Nashville, where she met and married five-time Grammy-winning producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith). The self-titled Kindred Spirit album, released in 1992, was full of superior, grown-up pop, supported by opening slots on Joan Armatrading’s British and European tour. A further highlight of Kennedy and Peterson’s time together was as opening guests for Vince Gill’s show at the Royal Albert Hall.
Siobhan’s latest exciting project has her recording a new song by two fellow Brits who call Nashville home, the mighty Roger Cook and the fast-rising Jonny Lucas. Her credentials also include extensive television work as a presenter and actor.
JON KEATS
Jon Keats was born, raised and still lives in Liverpool. After playing in several bands, Jon switched to an acting career in his early twenties, landing his first major role portraying John Lennon in 1990. Jon worked extensively in theatre, film, and TV for over 20 years.
Keats first played the legendary Cavern Club way back in 1987, and in 2008, he became a resident artist at the venue, playing five times a week. After taking over the programming of the Cavern, he soon became a director of the company, a role he manages to juggle with his weekly shows.
Jon returned to his songwriting passion during the pandemic. He released his first original in 2021, and has just completed his debut album, Any Man Would Do the Same, which will be released with Pacific Records in November. Next year, Jon plans to release a live EP, recorded in Sun Studios. Jon will be joined by fellow Cavern director Paul Jones, also from Liverpool. Paul, like Jon, multi-tasks, portraying George Harrison in the Cavern’s resident Beatle band, The Cavern Club Beatles.
