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Review: 'COOK, CHRIS'
'BAG OF EMOTIONS'   

-  Album: 'Bag of Emotions' -  Label: 'Bandore Entertainment (www.chriscookmusic.com)'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '2008'

Our Rating:
Hoorah for Chris Cook! Anyone brought up on early 70s blues based rock is going to love this record. Fresh as a daisy, Bag of Emotions carries echoes of Little Feat, Eric Clapton, BB King and early 70s Stones. There's Hammond Organ, rocking piano, girl backing singers and stacks of great guitar work - all topped off by Chris Cook's soulful voice.

Chris is in his thirties and has been on the road all his adult life with a variety of bands; he probably has more songs in his repertoire than could be put on twenty discs. Bag of Emotions, then, is just a snapshot of what the man's capable of and for this, his third solo cd, he's gathered an expert studio band who produce the goods with the fluid ease that leaves you happily washed away by the flow of the music.

Standout track for me is Track 2, Tonight I Need A Friend, with it's joyful, full-blooded recreation of the Allman Brother's sound. The music industry being full of retro sounds these days it's always possible that Chris could catch a wave and find himself hugely popular but it's sheer love of the music, not a business calculation, that has brought him to make this record; whether it ever becomes fashionable again is in the lap of the gods - or the marketing men - but Chris's talent and commitment will always find him an audience and the familiarity of the style will always put a smile on our faces.

Lover Lover, the opening track sets the mark for the album as a whole: pretty generic blues rock lyrics delivered with a swaggering blues-y stomp driven by Chris's harmonica playing and lifted by the exuberant backing singers. Ten tracks later, Chris has run the gamut of all the musical joys to be found in this genre and we, the listeners, are left feeling a whole lot better about life.



(John Davy www.nessmp3.com/music/biscuitsandgravy)
  author: John Davy

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COOK, CHRIS - BAG OF EMOTIONS