Ignorance and idiocy. These two big “IS” accompany humanity like a shadow. Al Cook knows her about a fee. In his case, he struggles against both with the guitar and a voice in which on the one hand the suffering can be heard. On the other hand, it gives the dedication to a form that was a steep template for ignorance and idiocy: Al Cook plays blues. And not a pleasant edgeless, but real country blues from the 1920s and 1930s. Music, as they played Charley Patton, Son House or Robert Johnson, over there in the US south.
