"Dana Cooper is a person who sings like an angel and plays like the devil." Buzz Holland Building a Human Being features vocals by luminary songwriters Kim Carnes and Sally Barris. Cooper is the recipient of the Folk Alliance International 2015 spirit of Folk Award “This veteran song poet is a self-contained road warrior--a man of many tunes and tunings, and a right hand few guitarists will ever know. His music is vital, and live you see him channel all his energy into the song. The songs are smart, but they come from his heart.” —Frank Goodman, puremusic.com “...the kind of idealistic Whitmanesque songs of experience that not many people are singing these days. Put all this together and you have something that sounds suspiciously like wisdom.” —James M. Manheim, Ann Arbor Observer