Who Is Preston Cooper? The Story Behind His Journey to Country Music

Full name – Preston Cooper
Birthdate – 03/07/2003
Hometown – Fredricktown, Ohio
Current city – Nashville, Tennessee
Musical influences- Chris Stapleton, Bob Seger, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Foo Fighters, Erich Church
Label – The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine Label Group
Current single- “One More Place I’ve Never Been” + “Numbers On A Mailbox” (as of date of article: 3/17/2025)

Today’s spotlight shines on The Valory Music Co. and Big Machine Label Group artist, Preston Cooper. Cooper is a force to be reckon with in country music, and we enjoyed getting to know his story so far. In our conversation, we covered everything from his journey to Nashville and his newest releases.

“I grew up in a small town. […] It’s a farm town. It’s not very big,” began Cooper. “I grew up being out in the woods and hunting a lot, I started playing guitar freshman year of high-school and I joined choir, did that for a little bit, and then I just started singing and playing shows especially after high-school, I started playing bar gigs around town.”

Despite loving music, Cooper did not immediately pursue his raw singing talent. He was simply a fan of music first as a young kid. “When I hit high-school, I really started to get into music. There was always something about music when I was young that just pulled me in. I remember I was in the backseat of my mom’s car when I was super little, and music was just always something that kept my mind busy,” he shared, adding, “I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Tennessee Whiskey” by Chris Stapleton on the video.”

Cooper recalls looking up to artists like Stapleton and Keith Urban, as well as, artists across other genres like John Mayer and the Foo Fighters. The artists challenged the singer to get better at his craft. “When I started playing guitar, it was more of hobby than everything else. I would play three hours after high-school. My fingers would bleed I would play so much. It was kind of an escape from everything. There was something about it that I loved. I didn’t know I was going to do it for a living.”

The Turning Point:

Cooper continued to play more and more gigs post high-school, while also working full-time as a mailman. “I worked at the post office right after high-school and played gigs at the same time, and I was making more money playing gigs, so I quit my job, and I was having fun doing it,” shared the singer-songwriter. “People seemed to love it around town, so I kept on doing it.”

As he played more and more shows, Cooper grew his fanbase and his connections. One day, he received a call from a booking agent, who invited him to play a gig in Toledo, Ohio, opening for Nashville songwriters, who he later learned were The Warren Brothers.

“I had a little 45 minute set during cocktail hour, and The Warren Brothers were in the back at a meet and greet, and they are usually never there before their set. Well this one particular day, they happened to be there an hour early, and they heard me sing, and they told their booking guy that they wanted to meet me.”

He met The Warren Brothers after the show, and they invited him to come to Nashville. “Three weeks later I drove to Nashville, and we played the Bluebird and we wrote “Weak” the first day and recorded it the first day I came to Nashville, and I stayed with them. I just kept making trips down after that, and we’d all get together, and we’d write a couple of more songs and we would go in the studio and record them.” The first song that the singer and The Warren Brothers wrote together would later become Cooper’s debut single.

Eventually after nine months of making trips to music city, Cooper made the move to Nashville, and within six months of moving to town, the singer-songwriter signed a record deal.

Today:

Flash forward to today, Cooper is making a name for himself as a country artist. So far, the singer has released three singles, including, “Weak,” “One More Place I’ve Never Been,” and his newest song, “Numbers On A Mailbox.”

The latter is the only song of the three that Cooper did not have a hand in writing. “I did not write that song, but it was about a year after I knew The Warren Brothers, they had a memory pop up on their phone, and it was that song that they wrote. They wrote it like eight years ago. Everybody in town loved it, but they never cut it because it never spoke to them personally, but I was a mailman, and a young kid that moved away from his hometown, and they sent me the song, and it just stuck with me,” he shared, adding, “So we went in, tweaked a few things, and it really became [a] Preston Cooper song.”

On the other hadn’t, “One More Place I’ve Never Been” was inspired by a story of no longer being with a girl, who has a new relationship in a new place. The single is another incredible story-driven, emotive song. “We wrote “One More Place I’ve Never Been” the second trip I came to Nashville. It sat on the shelf for three months, and we went to the studio with a band, and the band crushed it, it just really came alive.”

Cooper is sure to continue to release even more music as the year progresses. Fans can even catch him playing shows with artists like Riley Green. Check out the tour dates and get your tickets here!

Connect:

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