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Rolling Stone The Metalhead Who Played Country Guitar
The Steel Woods’ Jason “Rowdy” Cope died in January, but his power-chord-meets-chicken-pickin’ guitar style lives on with a posthumous album. “He was a natural bridge between feel and technique,” says Cope’s friend Jamey Johnson
By Jordan O Donnell for Rolling Stone
There’s an uncharacteristic quaver in Jamey Johnson’s baritone when talking about the last song he ever wrote with Jason “Rowdy” Cope, his longtime friend and bandmate.
That song, “All of Your Stones,” ended up becoming the title track of the new album by Cope’s band the Steel Woods. Released last week, the LP is an unexpected tribute to the Southern-rock group’s lead guitarist: Cope died from complications related to diabetes in January. He was only 42.