Citizen Cope Credit: bulldogmedia707/ShoreFire Media

Citizen Cope Credit: bulldogmedia707/ShoreFire Media


Don’t feel bad if you have no clue who Clarence Greenwood is. The 51-year-old songwriter best known as Citizen Cope has amassed a healthy following in the years since his debut album, Cope Citizen, bowed in 1992. Fans will be out in full force at Jannus Live, where he’ll will play songs from a new album (Heroin and Helicopters) that continues his tradition of making hip-hop and blues-influenced rock that can float the mainstream and hang tough in the underground, too.

Citizen Cope. Fri., June 28, 7 p.m. $31. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg. jannuslive.com.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...