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Miss Blue'es Child (2005)Eli
Miss Blues'es Child is the first solo/acoustic recording of Eli Cook. Recorded live and unedited in the studio, it contains four original blues-based tunes.
Don't Ride My Pony is a rollicking musical joyride that leaves Ole Man Death in the dust, featuring sideman Patrick McCrowel on banjo.
Miss Blues'es Child borrows its title from the poem by the renowned poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.
The Highway Song, and Trick Bag are both classic contemplative blues compositions in which the guitar speaks with as much eloquence as the singer.
CD's available at www.cdbaby.com
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"...The best blues singer of his generation."--All Music Guide
REVIEWS
"Eli Cook is a twenty-year-old blues guitar wizard with genuine soul. His first acoustic recording consists of old and new songs played in the raw, live-sounding arrangements with little more than Cook's acoustic guitar and voice, plus banjo accompaniment by the stalwart Patrick McCrowell. Cook's playing is a joy, and his original songs fit smoothly with his thoughtful covers of Robert Johnson, Son House, traditional songs and the like...Cook's raucous take on Fixin' To Die shows his mastery of incessant, scratchy, electricity. By contrast, the satisfying, seven-minute-long Trick Bag, also an original, demonstrates his sensitivity to the importance of empty space, something young performers don't usually develop so early in their careers...Cook's fine guitar work and top-notch material make this CD a very worthwhile listen. Eli Cook is a talent to reckon with."--Jon Sobel pub. May 11, 2007 at blogcritics http://blogcritics.org/archinves/2007/05/11/20749.phpEli Cook
"Twenty-year-old prodigy Eli Cook is a revelation. With a voice as rich and graveled as his by-gone Delta-blues predecessors and guitar work that most musicians couldn’t hope to master through decades of intensive training, Cook’s debut release feels more like an unearthed Southern masterpiece than the recordings of an underage white boy ." — LGLP at On Tap Magazine, Washington, D.C
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ElectricHolyFireWater (207)
More than a year in the making, ElectricHolyFireWater offers a unique blend of relentless, bass-heavy blues metal. Eli Cook's Delta- blues vocals and lyrical imagery are served with punishing riff-rock and complex arrangements. Bassist Eric Yates and drummer Jordan Marchini give the high-energy performance that earn them the brand of the genuine power-trio.
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REVIEW BY NIGHTWATCHER'S HOUSE OF ROCK
"Not far removed from what bands like Corrosion Of Conformity, Clutch and the previously mentioned BLS are doing, the 13 tracks found here are melodic in a modern heavy rock sense, but over the top of the crushing riffs one can hear guitarist Cook's roots in Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. From the opening heaviness of "Santeria Shakedown" you get an immediate sense that B.B. King this ain't. And you'd be right.
"As Cook drawls about "BadMotorfingers" the chugging grind of rhythm section bassist Eric Yates and drummer Jordan Marchini take this to headbanging stage, the guitarist laying down searing, almost psychedelic licks, wrenching the notes out in a molten metal haze. "Bury Me" could easily be a radio hit, the thick as molasses guitar cutting through the mix while bass and drums swing with a passion normally not found in heavy music these days. Equally adept at slide guitar, Cook evokes the spirit of Elmore James in modern form on "Shotgun Blues". If James came back as a young white metal head that is. You'd swear that you were listening to Zakk Wylde at his acoustic based best on "Light That Gasoline", which could easily be mistaken for an unreleased track from the former's 'Book Of Shadows' album. Throughout the rest of the songs, which include a more than credible takes of Jimi's "Spanish Castle Magic" and the Willie Dixon penned classic "Back Door Man", it's clear this isn't your father's blues.
"Cook is certainly no Stevie Ray Vaughan clone, and the music found here would easily fit in any heavy radio format. In fact, out of all the young blues based rockers, I'd venture he'd be the closest to fooling the kids of today into listening to the blues without realizing it. In that sense, he's not that far removed to how Zeppelin did it back in the 70's, and if he isn't to that level yet, this is still one damn fine album which rockers and more open minded blues fanatics can both enjoy.--Keith Langerman
Moonshine Mojo (2004)
Moonshine Mojo is Eli Cook's debut recording. Recorded live in the studio with his Red House Blues Band, the tracks on this album feature radical renditions of classic blues hits like Muddy Water's Mannish Boy, Hooker's Huckle Up, and Albert King's Crosscut Saw, as well as virtuoso guitar performances of Hendrix's Little Wing, and the little-known Jerry Reed two-step instrumental Kicky, previously recorded only by Chet Atkins. This album also features an original guitar compositon by Eli Cook, Easy Boogie.
Available at www.cdbaby.com
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Static in the Blood (2010)
Eli Cook covers new ground with his fourth release, a lush
R&B studio recording with roots deep in gospel and blues.
Featuring vocals by "the best blues singer of his generation"
(All Music Guide) and elegant guitar work of every hue and shade, the album is a paradise of contemporary styling all done the unmistakable Eli Cook way.
"Hold 'em up High" launches a 5 tune whirlwind of irresistable
rhythms that conclude wth the title track "Static in the Blood",
a genre-crossing masterpiece of R&B and Pop.
Other highlights are "Sangria" a ballad that shares the ecstacies of love, and "El Camino" a gentle Rap composition that is a feast for the ear, mind, and heart.
Classic blues lovers will delight in "Shan Gri La" an instumental peformed on resonator guitar, and "Nobody But the Babe", the beloved American folk lullaby with a fresh arrangement for today.
Cover songs on the album include soulful renditions of "Sister Morphine" of Stone's fame, and Bob Marly's " Three Little BIrds."
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Waking in a cyclone fury gone down,
But I’m bathing in redemption’s song!
Never could I rightly say
I felt the same way
As I did the day that I went wrong...
Coulda shoulda known
Woulda had a good home
But I’m straying further each and every day.
Tombstone shadow
Hanging heavy overhead
But the only thing that I can hear ‘em say:
" I know
What it’s for.
Most people don’t figure the score.
Gettin’ mine before there ain’t no more..."
Got to keep pushing!
Ain’t no giving up, Lord.!
Hold em up high! Hold em up high! Hold em up!
cPulling from the long end
Of a broken bottle.
Gotta get on the mend!
Better find you something, brother!
Getting better all the time
‘Cuz it’s all a state of mind.
Tell the truth, but if I lie
I’ll let you make an honest man of me.
Suicide slipping
Down the back seat droppin’
On the back beat kamikaze
Nothing you can do about it.
Sweet child with a
Soul unsound
She smiled,
But its upside down.
I know
What it’s for.
Most people don’t figure the score.
Gettin’ mine before there ain’t no more.
Got to keep pushing!
Ain’t no giving up, Lord.!
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"Do you dig the blues but love metal too? Well here's an album that can satisfy both at the same time. On their third album, power trio The Eli Cook Band concoct a great mix of down and dirty blues mixed with Black Label Society heavy riff metal, resulting in not only a collection which is true to the roots but one you could mosh to also.
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