Cook and Rose

I'm waitin' for a big orange moon
I'll walk around while the whole town sleeps
And at dawn it's gonna give me a tune …

Christopher Cook, guitar and vocals 
Emmy Rose, vocals

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   Photo by Emily Bristow

Tell me how the sweet life cannot be for me. 

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Sugar of Carquinez is an unreleased song. It's a rough mix - hasn't been mastered, so the sound quality may be affected a bit.

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I walked through the city of clay,
a place where I'm not very tall,
but you can buy a golden day
in any market stall

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Emmy Rose vocals and harmonium, Christopher Cook guitar
photo by Emily Bristow

A man drove across the plains with a wife with dead eyes
A car he had to push to start and a suitcase full of lies
But every place just looked the same - Nowhere to start again
With a…

I want to sit with you
Down by the river
Everybody wants to get next to you
‘Cause you’re a giver

But I want to see
Can you put it into my eyes
How you can believe when it's dark…

We are shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of our friend, Ollin Chavez. Ollin was a warm, loving soul whose empathic violin playing enriched our music and made it bigger.

Wild Cathedral Bells

A Dream Up…

"Another day has come around 
And I can’t take my eyes off the edge of town 
Can’t take my eyes off the edge of town." 

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Christopher Cook on guitar and vocals 
Emmy Rose…

The streets are filled with rubble 
From some forgotten war 
They’d like to fight it all again 
But we can’t take it anymore 

Oh, misery be warned 
There’s only so much can be borne

Christopher Cook – guitar and vocals…

Click the picture to hear Chris play Chimney Swifts.

It seems like I’ve lived the time that you’ve lived 
But everyone sees a different world 

And I know that you’ve been with artless travelers 
Who unravel the wonder and take the stars out of the eyes 
Of the sweetest…

"It’s a rich and beautiful world 
So much to see when you travel about 
But when you’re a lonely girl 
You can get lost in a house"

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Christopher Cook, guitar and vocals
Emmy Rose, vocals…

On the porch, the fireflies 
Gather ‘round the glow of your cigarette 
Sittin’ out in the evenin’ time 
‘Cause the house ain’t cooled off yet

Christopher Cook, guitar and vocals
Emmy Rose, harmonium
Gracin Dorsey, cello

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