Rod McCoy

Rod McCoy is a native of the Greensboro/High Point, NC area and now calls The Queen City, Charlotte, NC home. He started out musically playing trumpet in his middle school band. However, it was the instruments played by his grandfather a notable guitarist on the quartet scene and his father a drummer that peaked his interest. Rod tried both instruments but was drawn to the guitar. While in high school Rod was taught how to play the bass guitar by his father’s best friend. By the age of sixteen Rod was playing fulltime with a quartet group and filling in as a part of his father’s group. It was while Rod was in college at North Carolina A and T State University studying communications his musi