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COPA (band)
COPA is an American alternative rock band formed by photographer Rory White, Travis Walker, and Jeff Condit in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 2002. COPA proclaims itself to play "gospel cigar rock", a genre or their own that aims to fuse harmonic minor chordal structures with danceable drum and bass grooves. COPA has also described itself as recording "drunken nuclear pirate music suited for voyages to the edge a flat world" in reference to the dramatic use of minor keys and dynamic crescendos that serve a formulaic role in many COPA songs.

COPA MUSICIANS
Past participants in COPA also include Tyler Cook (guitar), Brady Keeling (guitar), Matt Manix (bass, engineer), Chris Brush (drums), Danny O'Lannerghty (bass), Don Mott (bass), and Jody Underwood (keyboards). While COPA continues to produce recordings and to perform rare shows, its only consistent member is Rory White.

COPA HISTORY
COPA formed when White, Condit, and Walker met each other as band members pooled together by Ben Davis, playing as Ben Davis' band Ben Davis Project. They quickly became a solution for student engineers at Middle Tennessee State University to use as subjects for recording projects. The albums Hotlights and Magnus Copa constitute the results of these projects.

COPA RECORDINGS
The Copa Canon: a compilation constructed of four songs from COPA's three early recordings, pressed to CD as a way to introduce fans unfamiliar with the rest of the COPA catalog, with the rest of the recordings released digitally through iTunes.

The 3 albums that constitute The Copa Canon:

Hotlights

Magnus Copa

Discografiti

The Copa Club: a live recording by Dylan Seals compiled from live recordings from 3 Nashville night clubs:  Rocketown in 2006, Exit/In, and 12th and Porter in 2008, respectively.

NAME CHANGES
The COPA name was shortened from Copacabana, which the band decided was "too long and kept being recited as 'copabanana' by its peers and people born after 1980." COPA is currently entertaining changing its name yet again to the more unique "Gospel Cigar".