Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Johnny Cooper was born in Phoenix, AZ in 1988, but his musical roots really began in Texas, where he spent his childhood after moving to the Lone Star state with his family in 1992. He showed an early interest in music and dance, and was playing the drums by his early teens. Switching to guitar on the advice of Witchita Falls promoter Woody Hodges of Sold Out Productions, Cooper soon came up with his own blend of the regional musical hybrid know as "red dirt," a Texas and Oklahoma-based concoction of Southern rock, country, and blues, and following a gig opening for the Great Divide in Witchita Falls in early 2004, he began a career as a working musician, playing in the clubs at night while still attending high school (where he also played on the tennis team and sang in the a cappella choir). Cooper began to write songs and started to refine his own sense of the red dirt genre, stretching it to include some pop, soul, and funk elements. Backed by the band A.A.
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