The youngest brother of folk singer/songwriter Jack Hardy, Jeff Hardy played bass and sang background vocals in his brother's band for 11 years. He was a part of the close-knit community of folk musicians in New York's Greenwich Village in the '70s and '80s, a member of the Musician's Co-Op that ran the Speakeasy nightclub and published The Fast Folk Musical Magazine. He performed with dozens of musicians in New York clubs and toured with his brother around the U.S. and in Europe.
In the '90s, with a family to support, Hardy went to cooking school and trained as a chef. He w...