Cooper Lilly grew up in Nashville and has always been a fan of live music attending dozens of Grateful Dead concerts in the mid 80’s as well as multiple shows by Little Feat, The Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Ray Charles, John Prine, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal and Robert Hunter among others. He built his reputation around Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Cleveland playing slide guitar emulating players like Ry Cooder, Dwayne Allman, Lowell George (& Paul Barrere) and Elmore James. Past projects include “The Barking Spiders” (in Louisville) and “Southern Comfort” (in Cincinnati). Having grown up around live bluegrass from an early age, he picked up a lap-style dobro (i.e. square-neck resonator guitar) later in life and has never looked back. 

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Tools of the Trade

Early 80’s Kramer Pacer Strat Copy
(Built to emulate Lowell George’s Stratocaster)