Mal Cooper - Mal Cooper comes to the Smyth County Jam from Gray, TN. We are proud to welcome such a unique talent to the jam. Mal plays a four-string (plectrum) banjo, also plays guitar and is a singer too. He plays in a band called "The Acoustical Quartet". they travel some and play swing string music. Mal says that he has been playing about sixty years. He and the group play at Blue Mountain Pizza in Weaverville, NC on Friday nights. They have been there for five years. Mal has a son and daughter and four grandchildren. He retired as an engineer for a telephone company in 1993. We invite Mal to return to our jam any time he is able to do so.
