This time it worked out for me because the Blind Boys reached out to Justin Vernon about producing their record. You know, I have learned that it really is that you’ve just gotta be in the right place at the right time. How did you first get involved with the legendary gospel group? You led the house band on their new album of indie-rock collaborations I’ll Find a Way and played with them at two shows in North Carolina last week.
Let’s start by talking about your recent involvement with the Blind Boys of Alabama. While driving around North Carolina with his brother and Megafaun bandmate Brad, Cook explained his role in the Blind Boys’ indie-gospel mash-up and what’s next for his “beer drinking” blues band. Cook also recently released a solo EP This Side Up and will revisit his jamband youth with both Vernon and the members of Megafaun as part of The National’s upcoming Grateful Dead tribute. Both projects are also collaborations with Justin Vernon, who played with the members of Megafaun for years in the Americana post-jam group DeYarmond Edison before founding Bon Iver. But during the past nine months, Cook has fulfilled two of his dreams, playing the popular indie rock fest with his long-dormant blues trio The Shouting Matches and serving as musical director on Gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama’s new studio album I’ll Find a Way. When the Durham, NC freak folk trio Megafaun announced a hiatus in late 2012, few fans would have guested that banjo player/keyboardist Phil Cook’s upcoming year would include both a marquee slot at Coachella and a studio collaboration with a Grammy winning gospel group.
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