![]() I used to be an avid public radio listener in the morning to set my day and get a little bit of a wrap around the world and context of where we’re at. My parents both showed me how to combat that and to find tools to push through. ![]() It’s really easy to overlook and discount people. One that is built on giving and teamwork and love and a longing to understand other people. I got to see what it looked like to live in a community like that. I saw what my parents did in our community and everyday situations. We’d be at the grocery store and I can’t count the number of times a young mother would throw her arms around my mom’s neck with tears in her eyes and how thankful she was for my mom helping her out of a situation. I was trained to see people and I was trained to lift people up. My father was a nurse and coached Special Olympics. She organized the Relay For Life and was Chairman of the United Way. Having all these people in your life lifting you up, how do you personally try and give them that same feeling? Then I started to think about all the other people in my life and how I get a little high when I get to include their presence into my day and how grateful and how it lifts me up. I looked up at my friend and I just felt a little high. It involved all these characters from this vibrant community in Durham. How much time do you have? I thought of this title when I was watching a friend play a show that they had organized as a benefit. The record’s title is People Are My Drug, where is that coming from? Why do “people” inspire you so much? This was last July and we got in the studio this past January. Within 20 minutes we amped ourselves up and booked studio time. It was more of a late night conversation with two of my bandmates who simply asked what we would be doing this year. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) that it was time to put out another solo record? It’s a wonderful surefire smile-inducer.ĭuring our chat Cook - who many may know from being a member of Hiss Golden Messenger and Megafaun - touched on how the album came to be (beers with buds), how he finds the good in every person, and how he himself remains one happy dude. ![]() It basks in the tradition of old spirituals and New Orleans brass music while being one whole, free-flowing entity. It’s full of joyous odes to the human condition. This brings us to Cook’s upcoming, jubilant sophomore solo record People Are My Drug. Watching his friends and family be creative and just plain living, that’s what gets him off. See, Phil Cook is getting high off of the vibes provided by the people he surrounds himself with. ![]() No pipes or prostitutes, just a whole lot of positivity. What follows won’t be another sordid rock ’n’ roll tale of drugs and wildness. “I just get a little high,” multi-talented singer-songwriter Phil Cook tells me over the phone on a drive back to his home base in Durham, North Carolina. Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most important music being released throughout the year. The RX is Uproxx Music’s stamp of approval for the best albums, songs, and music stories throughout the year.
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