Bio: Mark Cool's grandfather played banjo and had a radio show with his bluegrass trio before Mark was born. Cool's dad collected Johnny Cash lp's and fed him a steady diet of am radio country music. When he was a kid, his collective family (a group "hippies" living communally) would host touring folkies and put on concerts. All of this combined with being a guitar student of Libba Cotten's accompaniest and disciple, Dana Klipp, as a teen, seems to Read more on Last.fm