Look! Look! A new song. It is made of limericks, eleven of them in fact.

Like another song of mine, this one began with an intentional misreading of the letters of Herman Melville. It … Read the rest

In another hilarious and extremely professional misunderstanding, I am playing at Mendovine in Gualala this Friday, *NOT* at Gualala Hotel. I repeat: Mendovine, not Gualala Hotel. 7-10 pm. Friday November 15 2019. … Read the rest

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I’ll be leaving Colorado soon. Before that happens I wanted to get together with some friends of mine who have been fun to play with. They are mostly singers. During an afternoon-long unrehearsed recording session and fish fry, we set … Read the rest

I am taking a sort of poor man’s sabbatical in the coming Academic year, and will not be consistently located in the state of Colorado. Over the summer I’ll be back and forth across the US a couple of times, … Read the rest

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On this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, the soul of one John Elwood Cook crossed the St. Lawrence River to rest, I hope, on some sun-mantled island, surrounded by fat muskellunge and bass, not a single rock bass, priceless acoustic guitars, … Read the rest