He will perform two sets: one of his new, exquisite solo piano music and one that focuses on older material with guitar and vocals. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - Cook has always been a musicians musician. Indeed, that exquisite album is just the start for a player approaching the grand old instrument from the perhaps unlikely foundation of American folk music. On the new release, All These Years, Cook's playing-a chronicle of gorgeous and emotionally expansive meditations-reorients expectations of solo piano composition and improvisation. It is, after all, the instrument of his upbringing and now the most direct line between his fathoms-deep sensitivity and the ears of his audience. The 10 songs that make up All These Years out Nov. Head to all year long to watch all the GRAMMY performances.
PHIL COOK ALL THESE YEARS PLUS
The War on Drugs, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ani DiFranco, Nathaniel Rateliff, Frazey Ford, the Indigo Girls: Cook's partnerships in just the last dozen years shape their own best-of.īut now, Phil Cook has returned to his first musical love: solo piano. Phil Cook’s new album took three days, plus another 100 years, to make. Below is the complete list of the winners and nominees for the 2023 GRAMMYs. The spirited piano solo on Hiss Golden Messenger's “Day O Day,” the incisive melody of Bon Iver's “AUTAC,” the mesmerizing elegance of the keys on Hurray for the Riff Raff's “Life on Earth”-yes, those are all Phil Cook, a beloved collaborator capable of transforming an entire song with a pretty lick here, a sharp line there. You already know Phil Cook, at least if you've listened to any of the most essential folk-rock, indie rock, or even gospel records of the last decade.
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