![]() There’s Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath on the bluesy call-and-response “Miles Away” (which she co-wrote), Tamisha Waden on the churning gospel number “Steam Powered Blues,” and a powerful choir on “Another Mother’s Son.” Encouragement can’t be a solo effort it requires the action of many. Phil Cook - Southland MissionFilm by RemedyProduced by Martin AndersonAdditional Camera by Tim Kiernan. People Are My Drug reverberates with voices. But more than simply sing about how and why people need one another, Cook embodies that ideal by drawing upon the community itself. Side A alone, culminating with the shiver-inducing Another Mother’s Son, has the capacity to light a fire in even the coldest of hearts. ![]() For his second album, People Are My Drug, he borrows from their encouraging messages at a time when being kind remains critical.Ĭommunity forms the thematic cornerstone of the nine tracks, which include covers of Allen Toussaint (“Life”) and Randy Newman (“He Gives Us All His Love”). Where 2015’s Southland Mission illuminated for listeners what Phil Cook hears in his head, this latest record lays bare the way that music makes him feel. Where 2015’s Southland Mission illuminated for listeners what Phil Cook hears in his head. In present times, choosing to amplify community and positivity through art can seem like a radical act. Cook has found many like-minded musicians. Transforming pain and injustice into love and compassion is a rendering that has been universal to poets and prophets for centuries. ![]() That directional shift makes sense in light of the extracurricular work he’s conducted in the interim: Cook wrote for Mavis Staples and The Blind Boys of Alabama, and has partnered with The Branchettes’ Lena Mae Perry, among other seminal roots music figures, on a handful of projects. His best-known project, Megafaun, formed when he and other members of the legendary Eau Claire, Wisc., band DeYarmond Edison relocated to North Carolina. In the three years since singer-songwriter Phil Cook released his debut solo album, Southland Mission, he’s steered his blues-driven roots sound closer to the shores of gospel and soul.
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