Phil Cook

Today North Carolina pianist, producer, and songwriter Phil Cook releases a new standalone single, the piano-centric take on “I Made a Lovers Prayer” alongside a new visualizer made by Daniel Fox. “I Made a Lovers Prayer” — the slow-motion wrecking ball that sways near the end of Gillian Welch’s 2003 album, Soul Journey — contains as many questions as answers: Does love lead to doom or offer deliverance? Does it render us with wonder or woe? There is no easy way to parse any of it. Cook’s solo interpretation of that elliptical gem was recorded in the throes of intense personal upheaval. In Fall 2022, Cook found himself living alone on his friends’ farm in North Carolina’s Piedmont. There, on the edge of forests and fields, he would wake to a dawn chorus, his window left slightly ajar to let the sound in. Cook began recording these birds and responding to them at the instrument that is the prolific multi-instrumentalist’s first and most steadfast love: the piano.
 

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