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Cool John Ferguson (John Ferguson) was born on 3 December, 1953 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. Discover Cool John Ferguson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As John Ferguson
Occupation Guitarist, singer, songwriter
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 3 December 1953
Birthday 3 December
Birthplace Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Nationality United States

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1953

Cool John Ferguson (born December 3, 1953) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

He has released five albums under his own name and played on around twenty others.

He is the Director of Creative Development for the Music Maker Relief Foundation, and plays his guitar "upside down".

Taj Mahal stated that Ferguson ranks "among the five greatest guitarists in the world. He is a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. He is with the ranks of Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, and Django Reinhardt."

At various times, Ferguson has played the guitar backing Taj Mahal, B.B. King, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Beverly Watkins and the Stylistics.

Ferguson was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States.

His father, John Wesley Ferguson, was head deacon at the Beaufort New Church of Christ, whilst his mother, Martha Jenkins Ferguson, hailed from Saint Helena Island.

The connection to Gullah culture remained strong in Ferguson's life.

He had learned to play the guitar by the age of three, but "had to be sat in someone's lap while they sat in a chair."

He was naturally left handed, and learned to play on a right handed guitar held upside down.

Two years later he was playing gospel music as a professional, and became a featured entertainer with his siblings billed as 'Little John and the Ferguson Sisters' on "The Lowcountry Sing" on Channel 5, a Charleston, South Carolina-based radio station.

1960

He expanded his musical knowledge in the early 1960s, by surreptitiously listening to WAPE, "the Big Ape", out of Jacksonville, Florida.

At Beaufort High School, Ferguson played the trumpet in a marching band and learned to read music.

1972

By 1972, he had joined the Earl Davis Trio.

This jazz based beginning led to a five-year stint with Stephen Best and the Soul Crusaders who played across South Carolina.

He also played on the tent revival circuit, and recorded with LaFace Records.

To supplement his income from music, Ferguson worked in landscaping and construction as a young man.

He relocated to near Durham, North Carolina for a spell, and Ferguson noted that "the local people were, you know, checking me out and saying 'you've got a cool walk,' 'you've got a cool talk.' So they summarized it to Cool John."

In addition to supplying studio backing work for various musicians, including Little Pink Anderson and Frank Edwards, Ferguson started to appear under his own name.

He has toured widely, performing at the Byron Bay Bluesfest, Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors, Lucerne Blues Festival, Switzerland's Blues to Bop Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, Columbia Blues Festival, and at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

He keeps a connection to his roots by having a regular Saturday night engagement at the All People's Grill, a roadhouse situated north of Durham, North Carolina.

At the Penn Center on Saint Helena Island, Ferguson was recruited almost 25 years ago to join a fledgling Music Maker Relief Foundation.

1990

Ferguson has worked as Music Maker's Director of Creative Development since the 1990s.

2000

In the early 2000s, he released his albums Guitar Heaven; the seasonal effort, Cool Yule; plus Cool John Ferguson; all issued by Music Maker.

2003

In 2003, Ferguson performed at the AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest.

2007

In 2007, Ferguson relocated to Atlanta with his wife, where he started his own record label, Cool John Recordings.

Ferguson's own With These Hands was the first release for the new label.

The album contained fifteen original tracks, ten of them incorporating vocals, encompassing blues, R&B, funk, rock and occasional Latin rhythms.

Ferguson was noted by Living Blues magazine for two years running as 'Most Outstanding Guitarist.' His work with Music Maker has seen him responsible for scores of albums being recorded by lesser known blues, folk and country artists, many of them at the veteran stage of their careers.

He played in a fundraiser for the Foundation in Washington, D.C., with Ironing Board Sam, and was featured in a photographic essay called "Music Makers", which was picked up by Garden & Gun magazine.

2008

Ferguson appeared in the documentary film, Toot Blues (2008), about the formation and early days of the Music Maker Relief Foundation.

2011

To mark the occasion of fellow Beaufort native, Joe Frazier's death in 2011, Ferguson played an electric version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park.

In addition, Ferguson regularly plays in two churches in Atlanta each Sunday.

Often dressed in his trademark flat-brimmed stetson hat, Ferguson continues to play his Fender Stratocaster upside down.