About This Event
Roger Cook is a renowned singer/songwriter, best known for hit songs such as Youve Got Your Troubles, Id Like to Teach the World to Sing, and Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress. Hes 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 Johns earliest recordings. He co-wrote Don Williams I Believe in You, and George Straits 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 familys, Our Place Nashvilles 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. Tonights performers are:Galen Crew | Sleepyhead | Princess | FragranceEarl Bud Lee | Friends in Low Places | Who are You When Im Not Looking | One Night at a TimeShawn Camp | Two Pia Coladas | How Long Gone| River of Love |Would You Go with Me Victoria Banks | When You Can Fly |Barefoot Girl | Hello HeartLarry Brown | Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak | Knock Three TimesTony Arata | Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame | The Dance | Here I Am | Im Holding My Own | Dreaming with My Eyes OpenBilly 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 | TroubadorSunKat | I Miss Tom Petty | Hey JoJo | Mississippi Girl (Adam Shoenfeld)