Just A Few Folk JP Cooper

• 1 Intro 00:55
• 2 Waiting On A Blue Sky 04:15
• 3 Diamonds And Gold 03:51
• 4 Grandparents 02:26
• 5 Yes 03:27
• 6 Summer Of Love 03:34
• 7 Sad Song 02:46
• 8 Something Like This 03:44
• 9 Just A Few Folk 01:54
• 10 One Silver Bullet, One Revolver 04:27
• 11 Nothing Ever Changes 02:45
• 12 You Give Me Life 02:58
• 13 The Greatest Story Never Told 03:04
• 14 Sad Song 02:46
• Total Runtime 42:52

Info for Just A Few Folk

“Just A Few Folk" is British singer-songwriter JP Cooper’s long-awaited third studio album.

Produced by Cam Blackwood, and co-written with Mr Hudson, Simon Aldred, Jamie Hartman, RØRY and Neil Ormandy, “Just A Few Folk’” is a beautifully crafted body of work, recorded entirely to tape at renowned London analogue studio Toe Rag Studios. The album speaks of everyday stories and experiences - family bonds, personal relationships, intimate moments. “Diamonds and Gold” is a soulful dedication to his wife, while “Sad Song” reframes heartache. He reflects on memories of growing up in Middleton, Manchester on “Waiting on a Blue Sky”, and the lead single “Summer of Love” blends retro soul, 70s-inspired grooves and JP Cooper’s signature rich vocals.

Speaking about the inspiration behind the album and its process, JP explains: “This record feels like a turning point for me — I wasn’t thinking about radio, labels, or what might “work,” I just followed my dopamine. It was important to us that this album felt as human as possible, especially at a time when so much of music and art is being shaped by AI. So I took the band into a studio with no computers, only tape, everyone played together in one room. “Just A Few Folk” is the most personal collection of music I’ve ever made, and I hope when you listen, you’ll feel the same freedom, humanity, and joy that I felt while making it.”

JP Cooper

JP Cooper
Manchester’s JP Cooper is a self-made, self-taught musician who manages to exist effortlessly within two scenes generally considered to be at varying ends of the sonic spectrum.

Learning his craft on the Indie Rock scene, but later connecting with the Manchester Sing Out Gospel Choir, John Paul Cooper’s exquisite vocal seamlessly encompasses the best of both worlds. This is meaningful music from the mind of someone who’s lived life, loss and longing. The singer defines the idea of what it is to be a truly singular artist who both defies convention and resists comparison.

Bought up during the guitar-laden years of Britpop, like many young Manchester teens, JP played in various bands throughout school. Broadening his musical tastes beyond Oasis by regularly visiting eponymous record store, the Vinyl Exchange, it was there the young music enthusiast discovered everything from Björk to Aphex Twin, Donny Hathaway and Rufus Wainwright. Deciding to go solo while at college, JP was finally able to fully draw on his various influences and begin to experiment with the sort of artist he wanted to be.

Teaching himself guitar, JP began testing his sound out at Open Mic nights and quickly started getting booked to play all over Manchester. Within a year he rose to selling out 250 capacity venue, the Deaf Institute. However, because he was a white guy with a guitar, he found himself increasingly booked at folk / indie / band nights.

Ill at ease in a scene into which he was thrust, slowly his audience began to diversify as the subtleties in his music began to emerge. He joined Manchester’s Sing Out Gospel Choir and released a series of three mixtapes, noticing a growing fanbase within the urban world. Soon he was not only selling out venues like the Gorilla in Manchester, but he was hitting capacity at shows in London too.

After signing to Island Records, JP released two EP’s, which have had over 10 million plays. The first, ‘Keep The Quiet Out’, was produced by Confectionary [Bonkaz, Jacob Banks]. The most recent ‘When The Darkness Comes’, was produced by duo One-Bit, and features six perfectly executed vignettes.

He not only has a large online following, but a large and loyal live fanbase too. Last year, he sold out four headline shows in London, including the The Scala, the Village Underground and KOKO. The EP’s, along with his engaging live performances, have won JP a legion of fans as disparate as his sounds; the likes of Ed Sheeran, Maverick Sabre, Shawn Mendez and Stormzy have all sung his praises, while collaborations with the likes of George the Poet have seen Cooper diversify a little into the spoken world arena.

This year has seen JP release the smash hit ‘September Song’ which has had over 11 million global streams, support Stevie Wonder on the main stage at British Summer Time, along with performances at Bestival, T in The Park and Festival No.6, and not forgetting his Platinum-selling collaboration with Jonas Blue, ‘Perfect Strangers’, which now has over 240 million plays on Spotify.

Next up is JP’s debut album, which promises to be bigger and bolder affair, while retaining a sense of simplicity and honesty. Featuring elements of hip hop, stand-up soul and country-inflected guitar, there will also be some unexpected twists and turns. JP isn’t an artist that deals in the formulaic, the predictable or the conventional. He isn’t here to make cookie-cutter sounds that cynically appeal to a mass market. Rather he wants to challenge the idea’s of what music people should – and shouldn’t – be making.

This album contains no booklet.