JEFFERY ALLEN CROPPER - ( Singer/Songwriter/Entertainer )

Given Name: Jeffery Allen Cropper

Date of Birth: 01-27-73

Where Born: Washington C.H., Ohio

Nicknames: JAC, Howie & Crop.

Favorite Foods: Hot wings, Pizza with mushrooms with Hot sauce & Tacos too.

Favorite TV Shows: The Dukes of Hazzard, My Name Is Earl, Titus, That 70's Show, King Of The Hill, The Fall Guy, The Late Show with Jay Leno, David Letterman, The FBI Files & Crime Show Investigation Shows,

Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, The Sure Thing, Young Guns, The Thing Called Love, Black Sheep, Tommy Boy & American History X, Joe Dirt, Gang Related, With Honors.

Favorite Actors: Chris Farley, John Cusack, Denver Pile = ( Uncle Jesse ), Jason Lee = ( Earl ), Ethan Suplee, Jamie Pressly, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Christopher Titus.

Favorite Actresses: Sandra Bullock, Catherine Back

Favorite NFL team: I know I'll get some slack for this one, but it's the Cincinnati Bengals. Even though they aren't so good right yet this year ( or for any year for that matter ). But I won't give up on em'. They will return someday, I hope. The Browns on some days. But my Favorite all time team is ( THE DALLAS COWBOYS ).

Favorite NCAA team: The Ohio State Buckeyes.

Favorite Things to Do: I like to do a little fishing, Ride my motorcycle, Camp , I like to watch Nascar & football games on Sundays. I love to D.J. my own country music radio station called ( THE OUTLAWS POINT ).

Favorite Songs: Old Violin - By Johnny Paycheck, No Time to Cry - By Merle Haggard, A Drunk can't be a man - By George Jones.

Advice to someone: Never give up on a dream you have, even if you piss some people off. What is more important, 'your happiness forever', or someone else's happiness for a while? ( Don't get into drinking & drugs, If you can learn anything from someone else, Learn from someone else's down fall. " Cause it just might save or cost you, your Life".

Jeffery Allen Cropper grew up in the foot hills of the appalachian mountains to emerge as just one of many Hardcore Honky-Tonk singers to go to Nashville an try for a career in country music. Tho millions haven't ever heard his voice. Those who have, have compared him to some of the most popular Honky-Tonk singing stylists in Nashville Or Texas these days. Jeff had took an interest in country music since the day he was born. Mainly because of his parents, (Gary & Joyce). They had a hugh collection of country records. Especially those of PayCheck, Jones, Waylon & Haggard, Bobby Bare & Tom T. Hall just to name a few.. For this little town of Greenfield was the area some of his heroes had the reputation of hanging around in, earlier in their careers.

In Jeff's earlier years, he didn't sing in public much. It was not till his senior year of high school that he got out on stage in front of a sold-out audience at a show choir performance at the Edward Lee McClain High School. Jeff was the only singer to sing a country music solo song that day. He got a standing ovation.

'I owe all that to ( Mr. Dale Knauer ) my show choir teacher'. If it wasn't for him kickin' me in my butt to get me up on that stage, I would have never gave it a second thought, Thank you 'Mr. Knauer' ( I MISS YOU )

What people didn't know or see about Jeff. Was that Jeff suffered from depression at a really tender age. As only his close friends knew. Jeff also had a drinking problem at a real early age as well. He took to the bottle in hopes that it would kill the broken heart & relationship problems he had with some of his x-girlfriends, or problems with the law & some other personal problems he had at that time.

Jeff has been in recovery for a few years now.

His songs tell a true story of wrong doing & redemption. He writes from a broken heart. A person who is turned on to alcohol & drugs for a crutch. Some songs have a much more powerful punch to everyday life. From a guy that is so tired of trying to please everyone else in his life. That he gives up on self control & then dips into the dangers of ( DRUGS ) to help him make it through the hard times. a Guy who has lived to the songs he sings. Determined to destroy his life by taking the action of alcohol & cocaine ( 1 drink & a line at a time ).

Jeff once said 'I've been a bad boy, and there is no secret about that. There has been a lot of things being said about me that is not true. ' I just want to tell my side of the story for once'.

Everyone else gets their turn to talk about me and form an opinion about me, without even knowing who I am.

'I'm so damn tired of trying to please everyone else in my life, I been trying to make everyone else happy, that I've lost track of who I really am, & what my goals are. I know there is alot of people out there that feel the same way I do".

'It's people who think they know you better than you know yourself that get's me so pissed off'. Because they don't know a damn thing about you, except what they've heard from someone else!!!

I know I've had a problem with some things, There is no secret about that either. I am only a human being, I make mistakes, so do the people who is reading this. If you want to judge me or someone else for that matter.

You better '( STOP )' right now, go look in the mirror, and tell me what you see. Your far from perfect yourself!!!.

So don't begin to tell me about my kinda lifestyle & what is right or wrong". 'I know what life is all about, I have paid my dues & then some'. I live the truth every single day".

I DONE MORE IN ONE DAY, THAN MOST MEN HAVE DONE IN ONE LIFETIME.

Jeffery once said to me that ( loneliness is a lesson learned, when you choose to be lonely by choice ).

I really never knew what he meant by that till I later found out about his life choices.

Jeff had a ton of friends, but only liked a handful of them from his hometown of Greenfield, Ohio back in his drinking, cussing, druggin' & other wise wild outrageous behavior. He chose to run wild & free even when his girlfriends & friends tried to help him.

I was usually drunk & wasted somewhere on the road. I was just out & about rambling around, ( show to show, door to door, pillow to post ). Just trying to find myself. While everyone else was out trying to find me).

I did a lot of wild & funny, crazy things so people tell me. They tell me I had some real good times. I'm sorry now 'Mainly because I can't remember none of it.

Jeff's choice to hang around people who could put up with his stupid outrageous behavior along with his some times sorrow times. Also added fuel to the fire.

I liked to party all the time, 24-7 if I could. I often found myself down & out with nobody to talk to, I think that is why I chose to do the things I did. I think back on them days & I have a hard time remembering things about those days. *( I know even tho I had a girlfriend that loved me, I still had something missing in me, I didn't know what it was, or where I could find it. And really if it ever existed. All I knew was that I had to find it somewhere and somehow fast.

Or I was going to kill myself by living the way I was living)*.

I guess that is why I took to singing & country music, It had a way of giving me a release from all the pressure in my life I was dealing with. It also gave me fore sight & a hobby to keep my mind busy.

Jeffery Allen Cropper songs have a much different approach to today's everyday problems.

"Hell man, If you can't sing a song about the truth, what's the purpose of writing the damn song in the first place".

"I know I ain't as famous as some people. I really don't try to be. I know my songs won't be played on today's FM radio stations. That don't bother me either. ( I GOT GOOD FRIENDS THAT PLAY MY TUNES AT PARTIES. ( And they have a blast and laugh and crack up over my music. That is a good feeling to have. That's what makes me keep going. But I know when the truth is killing someone. I've seen it, I've lived it. Still to this day I feel & see the effects of the truth. You can't hide from the truth 'man, it'll find you." " I see a lot of my good friends wasted from the things they took & drank. I been there too. It's A hard cycle to break an do a complete 360' degree turn around in your life. Then just say 'Hey I quit', It's hard". And almost impossible to accomplish.

Tho Jeff has had his up & downs with Love, Music & the Law, It was never to serious that he spent anytime in prison. " I always got myself in trouble, I didn't need no one's help on that. " I just liked to drink and I didn't care if I was under the legal age or not". " It was always the law that said I couldn't". " I've paid my dues, and then some". Who says the law is right any how.

I use to say that I ain't hurtin' anybody but myself, ( which is a stupid statement ) Because in reality you do more than that.

( You hurt the ones that really love you ).

Like your parents, your family, your friends. The people who really do care about you.

On April 4th. of 1994,

Jeff was in a very serious car accident that nearly took his life, ( Jeff was a passenger in that car). At that point, Jeff was warned by his doctors to quit drinking. 'I knew I had a problem with alcohol, and I wouldn't face the fact that I had a problem, I always passed that notion aside. I kept telling myself everybody else has the problem thinking I have a problem.

I JUST LIKE TO DRINK

I do not say this proudly, or do I want to see anyone else go through this in their life. 'I have been on Life Flight medical helicopter air-craft a total of 5 times in my life. It is not a fun thing to go through. If you like having a chest tube and a stomach tube that they stick up the nostril's of your nose, down the back of you throat to get to your stomach. ( SO THEY CAN FEED YOU ) so you don't starve to death. Countless IV's and getting fed through them also. Nothing screams biscuits & gravy better than getting it through a straw.

Jeff has also plead guilty to 3 DUI's. I am not proud of it. Drinking & driving is a very dangerous thing to do. It's not smart & I understand some people got to do it. I know people will disagree with me on that. But how else can you get your car home from the bar when none of your friends are around or a cab.

I live in southern rural Ohio, We don't have cabs here in the country, or even the money to pay for one if we did have em' to take us home. ' NOT TO MENTION THE DAMN HIGH PRICE OF GAS FOR OUR OWN VEHICLE).

After Jeffery's last court appearance. Jeff realized that jail time could have put a end to or a big dent in his singing career. He turned a negative into a positive. " I knew I better get my life back on the right track right away or I wouldn't live to see my son grow up or have anything worth mentioning".

I been in 7 car wrecks, Five with other people drinking & driving, I wrecked a motorcycle in 1999 that put me on the Flight to the capital of Ohio, COLUMBUS for the 4th. time. Now you tell me If I ain't lived to tell it all.

Jeff is best known for his 'Outlaw' image. However, an image that he has let get a little out of hand a time or two, Then ol' Jeff had some time to think about it in the local county jail. " I don't blame anybody but myself for my problems, my ups I caused em' & my downs I caused them, I'm just trying to put my past behind me & get on with my life & my music, if the Lord allows me to do that, I'll owe it all to him".

Also Jeff has had a few of his songs released in a couple Biker video's. ' A few guys from California called me an ask if I minded if they added a couple of my songs to their biker video's. I told them sure. I made a pretty good penny off that deal.

Jeff had also been the headliner to a major biker rally in Akron, Ohio back a few years ago.

'Damn I loved that, Big D. rocks man, he is the owner of the biggest and baddest biker bar in and around the Cleveland, Ohio area called ( THE MAIN STREET SALOON ).

Jeff's life has not always been one of fame & glory. He has had some hard knocks & times along the way. " I've been through a hell of a lot in my short time here on earth. With a strong mind & the belief & LOVE for our lord. He over came those odds. " I'm not one to give up, I'm not one to be betting on". "When your talking & looking at me, you don't know what to expect."

I like to keep the show interesting.

In Country music, there are stars, those who think they're stars, And those who ought to be stars. Along with some who wish they were stars.

In the last category of country music, without a single doubt is,

Jeffery Allen Cropper ( The New Kind of 'Outlaw' ).

If ever there ever was a person to be destined to become a country music singing star.

Then this boy is the man.

(Jeffery Allen Cropper)

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