George Birge and Cody Cooper, better known as Waterloo Revival, have been friends since sixth grade, which is when they also started writing songs together. George recalls, “I convinced Cody to teach me how to start playing guitar and by eighth grade, it took me about two years, but I finally learned about six chords on the guitar.”
George convinced his parents to buy him his first guitar and then he says, “Cody had this eight track recorder that he kept in his room and we’d record demos on almost every Friday and Saturday night of these songs that we thought were amazing, but that were actually probably total garbage.”
Fortunately their songwriting has gotten exponentially better since they were kids. Waterloo Revival just released their debut single, “Hit the Road,” which is available to download now here.
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George Birge – “Yeah, we met in sixth grade and almost immediately became friends. I convinced Cody to teach me how to start playing guitar and by eighth grade, it took be about two years, but I finally learned about six chords on the guitar, convinced my parents to buy me my first guitar and we were ready to hit the ground runnin’. Cody had this eight track recorder that he kept in his room and we’d record demos on almost every Friday and Saturday night of these songs that we thought were amazing, but that were actually probably total garbage.”
WHAT THEY’RE DOING THIS WEEK – JANUARY 19, 2015 – MONDAY
Waterloo Revival has been on and continues to be on a radio tour this week promoting their debut Big Machine single “Hit The Road.”
WATERLOO REVIVAL – THE FACTS
MEMBERS: Cody Cooper and George Birge (Matt Wiley- lead guitar Ken Tondre on drums).
HOMETOWN / ORIGIN: Waterloo and Austin, Texas
DEBUT SINGLE: “Hit The Road”
DEBUT ALBUM: Coming soon. (EP was released in 2013)
RECENT TWEETS:
Waterloo Revival @WaterlooRev · Sunday, January 18
Radio tour week 1 in the books and we had a BLAST!!! See you tomorrow North Carolina!!! #HitTheRoad https://flipagram.com/f/PQXL6fKPks
Waterloo Revival @WaterlooRev · January 17
1st wk of the radio tour down and #HitTheRoad is still climbing on @SXMTheHighway up to 18 this week! We love y’all! Lets keep it climbing!
Waterloo Revival @WaterlooRev · January 17
“@bobhauer: Talking #beards with @WaterlooRev and @NancyandNewman #CountryCares #stjude ” y’all rock loved hanging!!!