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ON SALE FRI 13th NOV, 9am: €17 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-8pm M-F, 4-8pm Sat) The single displays the album’s extremes, pairing the cosmic country swagger of “No Intentions” with “Sleep Talking,” a blissful psychedelic experiment that appears near the album’s end. From the Blonde on Blonde-inspired splendor of opener “Call Out to Me” to the windswept heartbreak of the re-appropriated title track, it’s a powerful collection that reaffirms his potent songwriting gifts and fits them to refined textures and arrangements. His latest album, Desert, is attributed to The Dead Tongues (the name of Gustafson’s current backing band), was self-released on Feb. Lucky for local music fans, the hiatus wasn’t permanent. Gustafson drifted from writing songs and playing with a band, instead opting to support others and dabble with electronic composition. It was a style that seemed certain to make Gustafson one of the area’s newest stars.īut it didn’t turn out that way. At the time, he was rolling with the Drughorse Collective, a mostly defunct collection of Triangle artists with a knack for reinvigorating classic pop and rock styles, and supporting his Donkey LP, a colorful assemblage of old-school rock, soul and folk unified by Gustafson’s emotionally devastating songwriting.

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It’s been almost two years since Ryan Gustafson performed his own songs with a full band.

Listen to his debut LP Southland Mission – And he practices those principles in every project he takes on.” – Blurt “When it comes to defending folk, blues and other time-tested American forms, Cook can preach with the best of them. This tasteful and generous temper suffuses Hungry Mother Blues…” – Pitchfork

On the piano, he had a gracefully leaping sense of melody, and on the banjo, he played clusters of sweet harmonics in places where a less humble musician might have soloed hard. “…I was especially enamored of Cook’s sensitivity as an instrumentalist. Having garnered praise and adoration from fans, critics and peers alike, Phil is ready to step into the spotlight and make his statement. Cook has gained notoriety over the years releasing albums and touring the world with his own bands, Megafaun and The Shouting Matches, as well as collaborating on stage and in the studio with the likes of The Blind Boys of Alabama, Amy Ray (The Indigo Girls), Kathleen Edwards, The Mountain Goats, Hiss Golden Messenger, William Tyler, Glenn Kotche, Matthew E White, Charlie Parr, and more. Phil Cook is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and interpreter based in Durham, North Carolina. It adds up to a sweet, easygoing flow of happy sound, a simple beat with a good feeling to boot.Tickets priced €17 (incl booking) on sale Friday November 13th 9am from & & outlets nationwideĪfter impressing on his recent solo visit to Dublin opening up for The Tallest Man on Earth, Phil Cook returns with The Guitar Heels (his five piece band) to perform for one night only in Whelan’s. His lovely new track, “Steampowered Blues” - from his upcoming LP People Are My Drug (June 1) - doesn’t reinvent the wheel within the hallowed train-song canon, but… yeah, so? There’s no tricks or gimmicks here - a little vibrato guitar, a swinging rhythm section, a few raindrops of piano and a lively double-time chant to wrap it up. Now that trains mostly inspire disgruntled tweets, have we finally wrung their poetry dry?Įnter Phil Cook, a singer and songwriter who’s clocked in with Megafaun, Hiss Golden Messenger, DeYarmond Edison and more. Since the first full-scale railway steam locomotive was debuted in 1804, train songs popped up immediately and never stopped trains as metaphors, trains as getaways, trains as good-time, chooglin’ rhythms. While the transit system in New York remains a mercurial beast, let’s just take a moment to appreciate how reliable trains have been in the past century of songwriting.