“HE SAID HE’D SING IT ONE LAST TIME — AND SOMEHOW, HE NEVER STOPPED.” When Jeff Cook passed away on November 7, 2022, a quiet settled deep inside Randy Owen. He later admitted there are losses that words can’t carry—and this was one of them. Anyone who knew their journey understood why. For more than five decades, they weren’t simply bandmates in Alabama; they were family, bound by shared roads, shared dreams, and voices that grew together. Jeff had the rare gift of making any instrument come alive, but there was one thing only he could give—the harmony that made everything feel whole, that made the music feel like home. Randy once confessed he wished they could sing My Home’s in Alabama just one more time. And somehow… every time that song drifts through the air, it feels like they still are.
Introduction: HE PROMISED TO SING IT ONE MORE TIME — AND SOMEHOW, HE STILL DOES The Night the Harmony Changed Forever On…