{"id":75455,"date":"2017-10-03T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/eli-cook-brings-high-dollar-gospel-to-cortez-theater\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:32:40","slug":"eli-cook-brings-high-dollar-gospel-to-cortez-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/eli-cook-brings-high-dollar-gospel-to-cortez-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Cook brings \u2018High-Dollar Gospel\u2019 to Cortez theater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8edcf959-c0f1-4d86-8e10-43d506bc0e5a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" alt=\"Blues performer Eli Cook is scheduled to appear in concert at the Sunflower Theatre on Oct. 13.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blues performer Eli Cook is scheduled to appear in concert at the Sunflower Theatre on Oct. 13.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Kaya Lee Berne\/Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Blues firebrand guitarist and singer Eli Cook is scheduled to appear in concert at the Sunflower Theatre on Oct. 13, having completed his new album, \u201cHigh-Dollar Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. at the theater, at 8 E. Main St. Doors and cash bar open at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $12 at www.sunflower.org or $15 at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Cook explains his album title as an attempt to \u201cevoke the imagery of the American South.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe phrase \u2018high-dollar\u2019 is an old one, and \u2018gospel\u2019 is the Southern church music that brought us Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and countless other iconic musicians,\u201d he said. \u201cThe two phrases together can have several connotations, but the one I think of is the feeling of disillusionment that seems to be more and more pervasive. I think a lot of young people feel a sense of apathy and a loss in direction, generally speaking. People need inspiration, and it seems like that is becoming harder to come by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh-Dollar Gospel,\u201d self-produced at Full Moon Recording Studios in Virginia, opens up with a slow bang with \u201cTrouble Maker\u201d \u2013 taunting and questioning his muse to join him. Acoustic picking and slide drive the classic hoedown and cautionary tale \u201cThe Devil Finds Work.\u201d The haunting \u201cMixing My Medicine\u201d contains the cavernous sound of a detuned custom 12-string guitar, an instrument played famously by Leadbelly and Blind Willie McTell. Cook slows down Muddy Waters\u2019 melancholy \u201cCan\u2019t Lose What You Ain\u2019t Never Had\u201d into a terrifying, heart of darkness lament, his voice reaching a bottomless depth of sorrow. The orchestral 12-string guitar underscores the metaphoric boast of \u201cKing of the Mountain,\u201d which shows off Cook\u2019s huge growl of a voice. With its anthem-like chorus, it\u2019s a showstopper.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit www.sunflower.org. Sunflower shows are produced by and for the benefit of the nonprofit KSJD Radio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<h4 class=\"scoreboard-title\">If you go<\/h4>\n<p>Who: Eli Cook concert<br>\n                Where: Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St.<br>\n                When: 7:30 p.m. Doors and cash bar open at 6:45 p.m.<br>\n                Cost: Tickets are $12 at www.sunflower.org or $15 at the door.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>guitarist completes latest album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,21,559,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-cortez","tag-music","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75455"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}