community behind the record (the likes of Matt McCaughan, Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath) beams through as its own kind of congregation, though there’s occasionally a homespun gospel duo here, too, in the golden tones of Sophie Blak and Jeanne Jolly.
Recorded in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the warmth of the Durham, N.C. And like any good missionary, Cook’s fervor is infectious.Īlthough Southland Mission is studiously steeped in tradition, it wears it lightly. Whether simple banjo fare, outlaw stompers, or reeling strut, each one of Cook’s modes is an easy and infectious exertion. Southland Mission is a more full-bodied commitment.
In 2011 he released Hungry Mother Blues, a low-key solo instrumental record that chased Ry Cooder and John Fahey. White and Hiss Golden Messenger, acted as bandleader for the Blind Boys of Alabama, and produced for Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray. He played gorgeous, doleful folk rock in Megafaun, complemented the cohorts of Matthew E. "I didn’t realize it had to come out of me, but it had to." A decade ago, Cook moved his family from Wisconsin-where he was a member of Bon Iver’s orbit-to North Carolina, lured by the music of the Delta, Bayou, and Appalachia. That’s the stuff, right there-not that carrying on is as simple as just saying so Cook spends much of Southland Mission attempting to find the way, just as the path to this he record was its own calling.
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