Alt-country vet Thad Cockrell has been making music for over 20 years, with solo albums dating back to the early 2000s (when he was signed to Yep Roc and regularly recording with Chris Stamey of The ...

After seven albums and two decades of struggling to make it as a country music artist, Thad Cockrell was ready to start 2021 by finding a new line of work. Then Jimmy Fallon called. Cockrell, 48, held ...

Thad Cockrell visited the American Songwriter offices from Raleigh, North Carolina to play a few songs from his new album To Be Loved. Thad talked about co-writing and what’s it’s like trying to write ...

Just a few weeks ago, Thad Cockrell was ready to hang it up. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter, 48, had released a new album last summer. Since the pandemic had shut down touring and most other ...

“I’m as human as anyone,” Cockrell shares with American Songwriter. “I was holding off grief. I had worked on this for so long and so hard and it just came to a point where I couldn’t see things ...

In 2004, Thad Cockrell, a country singer-songwriter then living in Chapel Hill, packed his bags and did what his hero, Willie Nelson, had done four decades earlier. He moved to Nashville with hopes of ...

Thad Cockrell’s “Swingin’” skyrocketed to #1 on iTunes after a light switch broke in New York City. Jimmy Fallon heard the Nashville singer’s song inside of a hardware store while looking to replace ...

The Tonight Show host discovered the Nashville-based singer-songwriter during a chance trip to a hardware store Thad Cockrell thought it was time to throw in the towel. After 20 years in the music ...

Bet your bottom dollar on this: No one has ever accused Thad Cockrell of reticence. Caitlin Cary remembers meeting Thad for the first time at Humble Pie, back in 2000, when he was just a fledging ...

Traditional country music is marriage music, and there's no better way to dissect a troubled marriage than to have a female country singer and a male country singer trade lines in a duet. Caitlin Cary ...

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell made his debut on The Tonight Show Tuesday, January 26th, performing his song “Swingin’” with the Roots. Cockrell and the Roots linked up remotely for ...

This evening, The Tonight Show will feature a musician who, about three weeks ago, was ready to start looking for a new job. Thad Cockrell will perform his song “Swingin’,” with some remote ...