Lock + load -- it's "Shotgun" day!  Check out my new album!  Buy/stream here!

Yes, after all these years, my third album "Shotgun" will be released on Tuesday, November 22!  Very, very proud of this one -- check it out!

Can you call this a blog when it goes over six years without updates?  Well, if you're kind enough to be reading this, I'll let you in on a secret, which is that my third album is almost finished and will be out by the end of the year, probably in November.

I think you'll like it.  And hey, if you're reading this, send me an email at jarret@jarretcooper.com and I'll do something nice for you. :)

It's fatuous and narcissistic for someone like me to even pretend to be a "musician" long enough to "pay tribute" to someone like Prince, the greatest musician in living memory.  There are certainly enough wonderful and well-written tributes coming thick and fast today (I recommend this one by the great Rob Sheffield) that I don't need to put in my two cents.  But I've never been this shaken by the death of someone I didn't know and never met.  Stunned, didn't see it coming, still trying to absorb it.

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It's a bit (or a lot) embarrassing to look at all the blogs and Facebook posts I've made in the past three or four years, saying "new CD coming this year for sure!"  I clearly can't be trusted.  :)  But now that "Stars On The Ceiling", five years in the making, is finally out in the world, I couldn't be happier with how it turned out, and I'm glad I only put it out when it was really ready.

So thank you all for the incredibly great response -- all I ask is that if you like it, tell your friends.  :)  (And…

I recorded a cover of this unreleased McCartney/Costello collaboration last summer.  Enjoy it for nothin' while I finish the new album...

(Click to stream, right-click to download)

Tommy's Coming Home (m4a)

Tommy's Coming Home (mp3)

I'm too busy recording!

Will come STORMING back soon with newses and such, I promise.  In the meantime, check out my show from last year with Oren & Annie (and Nic):

See you Thursday! - Jarret, Oren, & Annie

Busy recording, playing, writing.  There WILL be a new CD this year...but I'll have a couple of other things to announce PRETTY DAMN SOON.

Keep hope alive - jc

Hey it's me again, the guy whose name is the URL for this site.  I have news both good and not-as-good.  The not-as-good news is that the new album won't be out until early 2014 (I'm just a helpless target of "sorry for the wait" jokes at this point...).  The good news is that it's going to be much better than it would have been had I rushed it out (which I was basically doing until I realized it was a bad move), and it's coming along quite nicely.  This one's going to be more ME than before, as far as…