Cooper Wells

Cooper wrote songs Nashville still plays and sang a few himself, sold out theaters and headlined festivals, then walked off stage mid-tour at thirty-seven and disappeared to a ranch outside the city. He spent twenty years alone, fixing fences and filling notebooks with songs he never played for anyone. His father told him years ago that music was a way to waste a life, and he spent forty years proving him wrong before he wondered if the old man had been right. His marriage ended the night he left the stage because he would not say why. Now he is driving to the town where he wrote his first song, and he is writing again, every line about the person in his passenger seat.