Standing on the shoulders of rock legends provides perspective when you’re making it on your own.

The Canadian-born Cook has just released his new full-length album, Seven Deadly Sins. The songs were jammed out over a period of years with amazing musicians, like bass player Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden), drummer Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, David Bowie), and input from producers like The Matrix (Korn, Avril Lavigne) and Howard Bilerman (The Arcade Fire). Seven Deadly Sins was then recorded with some of Cook’s most trusted musician friends. The album wasn’t so much born, as it evolved.

It all began when Cook’s father handed him a guitar at a very young age. He went on to garner a reputation as a child prodigy, which earned him the chance to play with many of the people he worshipped as a youngster. He grew up to share the stage with players like B.B. King, Van Morrison, Edgar Winter, Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy), and Canada’s The Tragically Hip. Cook even rocked the crowd with Aretha Franklin’s band, when he happened to be in the audience at a House of Blues gig that she was absent from.

With Cook’s honest unrestrained lyrics, powerful sound and high energy shows it’s no wonder he caught the attention of his business manager, Alvin Handwerker. Who has managed greats like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Gavin DeGraw, and many more.

Whether it was being the first Canadian rocker to tour China, or being declared the revelation of Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival, the former child prodigy is out to wake people up. It’s probably why Maclean’s Magazine named Cook in the ‘100 Canadians to Watch’ and the late, great guitar god Jeff Healey once publicly introduced Cook as the finest player in the world today.

Press Quotes

“A guitar prodigy who’s played for as long as he’s been able to swing the axe, Cook spent his Saturdays jamming and learning the strings from the masters at the all-ages jam sessions [in his hometown blues bar]. At 15, he was rubbing shoulders with B.B. King at the Montreaux Jazz Festival.”
- The Vancouver Sun

“The sound of the album is a darker, sludgier style of blues rock, with miles of dangerous, crunching guitars accented by writhing, howling vocals. Cook’s song, Bicycle, is a number one hit waiting to happen.”
- Craig Silliphant, Planet S Magazine