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Buck Shot History - 5

For the past year I have been performing with Any Reason a singing duo comprised of Cote & Cookie Reese.  They chose their name for not needing any reason to play their music.

         

They are both very talented, congenial, generous and patient musicians, and it is an extreme pleasure for me to be playing music with them.

COTE REESE

Cote is a piano player, composer, and song writer from Texas where he played hard rocking Texas blues and has shared the stage with many experience professionals such as Delbert McClinton, and Doug Sahm of the famous Sir Douglas Quintet. Early in his life he lived in Hawaii when his father was stationed there with the U.S. Air Force. It is where he learned Hawaiian songs and the Tenor Ukulele along with having an active surfing and beach life. Cote has played venues such as Slims in San Francisco JJ’s Blues Club, music festivals, private and public charity gigs all over the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cote along with Cookie are members of the East Bay Mudd Band.

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Cote is the arranger and music director of Buck Shot & Any Reason. Oh, and by the way on top of his musical talent he has been a practicing dentist for the past 30 plus years with an established practice in a historical Oakland, CA, building.

COOKIE REESE

Cookie is a “Journey Woman” musician and vocalist who plays in several Bay Area bands. She plays baritone sax, alto sax, flute, accordion and percussion in bands that run the gamut in musical genres from rock, blues, jazz, to New Orleans Cajun.

       

Cookie is a consummate performer with a mellow glowing singing voice that is a pleasure to hear. The mellifluous harmonies that Cote & Cookie sing are a result of talent, constant practice, and continuous improvement of their musical technique.    

Well there you have it 1955 to 2024 the musical journey of Buck Shot. I will end this with a poem by Robert H. Smith and appropriate song by Bread:

The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.

          

To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one's health is more,
To lose one's soul is such a loss
That no man can restore.

                                    

The present only is our own,
So live, love, toil with a will,
Place no faith in "Tomorrow,"
For the Clock may then be still.”

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