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  • Aug 27, 1949
    Guitarist/vocalist Jeff Cook is born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He founds the band Alabama with two cousins, grabbing multiple Entertainer of the Year awards on their way to the Country Music Hall of Fame 
    Aug 30, 1963
    Jeff Cook takes an on-air shift at Fort Payne's WFPA Radio
    Jul 20, 1970
    Alabama guitarist Jeff Cook receives an electronics diploma from Alabama Technical College in Gadsden, Alabama
    Oct 16, 1982
    Alabama's Jeff Cook holds the first recording session at his Cook Sound Studios
    Feb 3, 1989
    Alabama's Jeff Cook has his red fiddle stolen from the backstage area when the band plays the Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro
    Jun 9, 1995
    Alabama guitarist Jeff Cook marries Lisa Williams
    Mar 16, 2001
    Alabama guitar player Jeff Cook opens a new restaurant, Jeff Cook's Warehouse, in Gadsden, Alabama. It closes less than three years later
    May 3, 2002
    Alabama's Jeff Cook performs on the ABC-TV special "American Bandstand's 50th... A Celebration!," with Mick Fleetwood, Johnny Rivers, bass player Stanley Clarke, Billy Preston, the Chicago horn section and Jane Wiedlin, of The Go-Go's
    Feb 20, 2003
    Alabama guitarist Jeff Cook sits in the courtroom in Fort Payne, Alabama, as his former accountant is found guilty of embezzling $40,000 from his businesses
    Aug 23, 2005
    Alabama guitarist Jeff Cook undergoes gastric-bypass surgery

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