"Long Way To Wander is an eloquent, finger picked, perfect for Sunday
listening record." -Americana UK
"Basically, this is exactly the kind of act you'd be happy to stumble down the hill or through the birches
and hear at a music festival... warm like a campfire, familiar like the lake down the road... deep-thinking,
introspective stuff" -Fish Griwkowsky,
The
Edmonton Sun
"Long Way To Wander resonates with a Dylan-esque verve, a Waits-ian post-modernity, Cook baring his
soul in public for all to hear. The songs mostly revolve around Cook's strings - guitar, banjo, ukelele - and his low,
booming voice... His observations are spot-on and often funny, and places and people come to life vividly,
whether Cook is singing about his grandmother in Alabama or about being lost somewhere in the middle of Asia...
Long Way To Wander represents a huge leap forward for a singer-songwriter who has many more stories to tell."
-Francois Marchand,
The
Edmonton Journal
In Edmonton, CDs are available at Blackbyrd & Megatunes. On Taiwan, they're available at
Bobwundaye
in Taipei, Mojo Coffee
in Taichung, and the River in Jungli. For bulk orders you can email me.
Hey friends, just a little note to let you know that I'm turning my sails eastward
again & heading back to Turtle Island. The time here on Taiwan Freemosa has been lovely, and all too short... read my words from the
road
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Tues
June 3
Vancouver
I'll be one of the featured songwriters at Just Singin' Round
Songwriters' Showcase, a monthly charity dinner. Doors 6pm, dinner 6:30, show starts around 7:40, $25 minimum
donation
Fri
June 6
Penticton
Back at the newly-licensed Fibonacci Roastery & Cafe for an evening show, 7-9pm. This is
a really sweet spot & it'll be a pleasure to play there again.
Sat
June 14
Edmonton
Come party with the Long Weekends at my favorite watering hole, the ol'
Black Dog. The show runs 4-6pm & there's no cover.
Sun
June 15
Evansburg
Rangeton Farmers Festival, in Rangeton Park. It runs all weekend; I'm on Sunday at 2pm.
Fri-Sun
June 20-22
Driftpile
North Country Fair! The Long
Weekends are coming along & it's going to be a party!
back at The Druid for Chris Wynters' open stage.
I play early, 9:45 or ten, with open mic to follow. It's always a good time.
Wed
June 25
Edmonton
Come party with the Long Weekends at the official unofficial North Country Fair
two-day bender of an afterparty at O'Byrne's Iri(e)ish Pub, 10616 82 ave. from 9:30pm on.
As usual there's no cover and we'll have some musical friends along to spice up the stew.
Thurs
June 26
Edmonton
Come party with the Long Weekends for day two of the official unofficial North Country
Fair two-day bender of an afterparty at O'Byrne's Iri(e)ish Pub, 10616 82 ave. from 9:30pm on.
As usual there's no cover and we'll have some musical friends along to spice up the stew.
Pembina River Nights, in Rangeton
Park. This is a great new fest, only in its third year, limited to 600 tickets, and it has a killer lineup,
including Fred Eaglesmith, Rae Spoon, Myrol, the Dana Wylie Band, Sora,
Jeff Stuart, Doug Andrew & The Circus in Flames, Clea
Roddick, Ron Rault's Big Trio, Come On In My Kitchen, Buckler and the Wayne McGuire Band. I'll be
appearing with the Long Weekends, so bring your dancing feet.
YOU GOT PICS???
the Anglers would love to show you all what we've been up to, but we've been
pretty slack about photos. If you have any shots that you'd like to share, please, oh please,
email them to grooverevival [at] gmail [dot] com. selected photographers win something from us, we just don't
know what it is yet...
TABLATURE:
I've had a few requests for tablature, so here's some of fish
jumpin, for your plucking pleasure...
martin luther king
on vietnam... as relevant today as it was back in '67. cheney
predicts a decade-long occupation; history repeats itself.
"Recent polls have shown growing public dissatisfaction with
the president's handling of the war in Iraq in the face of a persistent
insurgency and the mounting U.S. death toll."-AP, my emphasis
added
They forgot
to mention the price at the pump, which seems to be people's #1 concern...
Civilians in iraq evidently don't matter to US military planners,
or to the mass media... what will it take for their lives to matter
to the US public?