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Artist: Scott Cook and the Long Weekends
Title: Go Long
Style: Folk/roots, Americana, Honky-tonk
For fans of: Greg Brown, John Prine,
Tom Waits, Corin Raymond,
Jonathan Byrd, Scotty Dunbar
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Label/Distributor: Groove Revival (self)
Catalogue Number: GRP007
UPC: 8-89211-51273-7
Track listing (all songs by Scott Cook unless
otherwise indicated):
1. Long Weekends Teme 5:36
2. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? 4:06
3. Tax Free Money (Scotty Dunbar) 3:35
4. A Lifer for a Wifer 3:46
5. I Live Down Here (Scott Cook/Raghu Lokanathan) 6:11
6. Sweet Maddie Spawton 3:38
7. Drink Poverty History 3:44
8. Talkin' Antropocalypse Blues 8:09
9. Te Kid with the Comic Book (Trevor Mills) 3:13
10. Come Tis Far 3:27
11. Te Day that You Were Born 3:02
12. Tat's Life (Loving You Right Back) (Corin Raymond) 4:06
13. While the Party's Still Going 4:57
Language Warning: tracks 6 and 8 contain the
word “shit”, and track 11 contains “shit”,
“smartass”, and “goofy-ass”.
Scott Cook's fifth full-length album in eight years sees the tirelesslytraveling balladeer switching gears, from the profound and sometimes
heartbreaking acoustic ruminations of 2013's One More Time Around, to a
danceable collection of songs backed by his seven-piece honky-tonk band Te
Long Weekends. Where the previous album had a 36-page booklet containing
the chords and lyrics to the songs alongside a long essay on questions of
intellectual property, state secrets, and the imperilled future of the human race,
this album has a 48-page photo booklet of the band in a park playing a frisbee
drinking game. Te lyrics and chords are still in there, not to worry. And
beneath the whimsy, there are still existential and political themes being mined,
he's just coming at them from a diferent angle. Te set was recorded live of the
foor over a single weekend, never going beyond three takes for each song, in
hopes of keeping the fun in them; as Cook says, “to try and put the summer on a
record.”
Te thirteen-song album starts with the sound of a beer cracking open, and
charges right into the Long Weekends' theme song, inspired by the near-sleepless
summer festivals that gave the band its name. Tere's also a song about overplayed campfre jams, an anti-pipeline co-write with Raghu Lokanathan, an
eight-minute talking blues rant about end-of-the-world predictions, a stringband
homage to a lady outlaw, a cosmic birthday song that would surely replace
“Happy Birthday” if only it weren't so hard to sing, alongside covers of his friends
Scotty Dunbar, Trevor Mills, and Corin Raymond, and a sublime closing piece
about an inevitable part of growing up: learning to leave while the party's still
going. It's rough around the edges, and even a little of-colour at times, but
there's a life-afrming, sun-dappled optimism throughout.
Cook hasn't stayed in one place more than a month over the last eight years,
racking up over 150 shows and ten festivals every year around Canada, the USA,
Europe, Asia, and Australia, and he doesn't plan on slowing. All the hard miles
notwithstanding, he still believes that songs can change your life, and your life
can change the world.
Online:
www.scottcook.net
www.facebook.com/scottcooksongs
scottcook.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/grooverevival
Canadian Publicity: Emma Jane Julien
(647) 218-3662
emma@emmajulien.com
Artist Contact: Scott Cook
(780) 695-3474
grooverevival@gmail.com