Blues Traveler’s John Popper Shares Heartwarming News About His Marriage to Sherri After 20 Years Together

John Popper of Blues Traveler in Las Vegas in April 2022.
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Key Updates

• John Popper of Blues Traveler participated in a rare interview on the latest episode of Rolling Stone‘s podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now.
• During the discussion, he revealed that he married Sherri Popper in October 2024.
• The couple initially met at a nudist colony in Hammond, Indiana.

John Popper’s journey over the past year has been eventful, marked by personal milestones and health challenges.

In a recent interview on Rolling Stone‘s weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, the 58-year-old frontman updated listeners about his life, including his marriage to Sherri Popper, whom he first encountered at a nudist colony two decades ago.

Popper expressed his motivation for sharing these details, noting that his Wikipedia entry lacked acknowledgment of his wife, a situation that he described as “driving both of us crazy for the better part of the year.”

Chan Kinchla, Ben Wilson, John Popper, Brendan Hill, and Tad Kinchla of Blues Traveler performing in Louisville in February 2018.

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Popper shared that he and Sherri, who was previously Sherri Fisher, first crossed paths 21 years ago. After separate life journeys, they reconnected and married on October 12, 2024. He recounted, “I met her, actually, at a nudist colony in 2003 that Ron Jeremy asked me to attend. I didn’t realize she was his date. I just knew that of all the nude women there, she was the only one with a shirt on, and of course, the eye wants what it can’t see. I wound up stealing her from Ron Jeremy at a nudist colony in Hammond, Indiana.”

The couple now embraces their roles as a “wonderful blended family,” with Sherri having one son and Popper sharing a daughter from previous relationships.

During the podcast, Popper also addressed health issues he faced, including carpal tunnel syndrome surgeries that led to a heart flutter diagnosis. Complications from these procedures ensued when a doctor accidentally nicked his femoral artery, causing him to lose “about a liter and a half of blood in my leg.”

John Popper of Blues Traveler in Las Vegas in May 2022.

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Two days later, after experiencing further bleeding, he sought medical attention at a different hospital, which resulted in three additional surgeries. In a humorous turn of events, Popper recounted an incident from his honeymoon in Italy where he sustained a head injury, quipping, “For the second time this year, my wife got to call the ambulance, this time in a foreign language.”