I got a keyboard and headphones, and I started waking up at six. When I came home, I had these goals in mind. What was it like going back to the piano after years of focusing on other instruments?
I knew for like the last four years that I wanted to redo this when I’m 40. He reapproached everything, he wrote his own technique.
He informed me that when he was 40, he took a year off to relearn the piano. Bruce is now somebody that I talk to on the phone every other month. He was a big hero of mine, and he was very encouraging. When I was 14, I met Bruce Hornsby at a music festival. When I arrived back home, I was freshly 40 years old and I decided for my 40th year that I would rededicate that year to the piano, which was my first and main instrument. So that was not a shock to me and didn’t alter my life or my plans. PHIL COOK: I had already planned to be home in 2020, to take that year off the road. But for Cook, it makes intuitive sense: it’s a way to reconnect with the expressive potential of his primary instrument while also expanding on the personal connections that bring him meaning.Īhead of the album release, the INDY caught up with Cook in his home studio in Durham, where he interspersed his thoughts with little bits of the songs from the record.Ĭook is an expansive storyteller, so this conversation has been edited. That his latest album, All These Years, is entirely introspective piano instrumentals comes as a surprise. Multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook is probably best known for his exuberant playing in groups like Megafaun and Hiss Golden Messenger. Phil Cook: All These Years I Psychic Hotline November 19, 2021
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