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An Outsider Takes On Southern Music

Phil Cook's album cover for "People Are My Drug."
Courtesy of Phil Cook

Phil Cook moved to North Carolina from Wisconsin over a decade ago. Even though he is from the Midwest, Cook says he has always been a student of Southern music. He had romantic ideas about the South from a young age, even with no experience of the region.

His new record is called “People Are My Drug” and features the band The Guitarheels. He says his music celebrates community. The latest album features artists ranging from Amelia Meath from Sylvan Esso to Richmond’s No BS! Brass Band.

Host Frank Stasio talks to Cook about the new album and why being an outsider helps him to appreciate Durham and North Carolina. Cook will play an album release show be at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro on Thursday, June 7.

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Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other WUNC shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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