Ginger Yoni CD

Long Way to Wander took the better part of a year to record, mostly on weekends in the Taiwan apartment of fellow Canadian expat rocker and kindergarten teacher Rob Jonkman, whose attention to detail shines through on the recording. Cook sings and plays guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica and percussion, backed up by fellow Anglers Tyler Dakin on lead guitar and Ikeda Kinya on double bass, and a handful of Taiwan's finest expat musicians in various accompanying roles. The album is something of a departure from the energetic roots and reggae jams heard on the Anglers' 2003 debut release A Quarter Ounce of Prevention; the focus here is on the songs, carefully and gently delivered.

Having already completed two summer tours of Western Canada with the Anglers and two cross-country tours alone, Cook has finally decided to leave the classroom and pursue music full-time. After the album's December 2007 release in Edmonton, he toured it around western Canada through the winter, to Taiwan for the spring festival season, and across Canada and into the States in the summer of 2008. 'Exactly the kind of act you'd be happy to stumble down the hill or through the birches and hear at a music festival... warm like a campfire, familiar like the lake down the road. .. deep-thinking, introspective stuff.

' -Fish Griwkowsky, The Edmonton Sun'Great vocals with some tasteful instrumental work and darn good song writin'.