The Sun Shines at Midnight

"Michael Cook has assembled a great band, recorded them in a wonderful studio with great engineers, and done fine work as a producer. Warren Vaché's great trumpet work along with wonderful clarinet and backing vocals, make 'Scared' my favorite cut."
- Dan Cohen, The Muse's Muse

"If you like good solid music - and I mean words and melodies that fit hand in glove - you'll like this first opus of Michael Cook. He has a way with words that shows insights into the human comedy."
- James Pegolotti, author of Deems Taylor: A Biography

Play	Song Name	Description
Rock
	Radical Contingency	A protest against the groundlessness of my own being
	Raskolnikov (I Like Your Face)	Song for my cat & Dostoevsky's anti-hero
	Sunglasses in the Night	For someone I loved but who didn't really exist yet
	Teach Me To Dance	Feel good rock song
Jazz-y
	Scared	Upbeat, happy tune about a few of my fears
	Mood Swing	Hip paean to coffee
	After The Lovin's Done	Jazz ballad a la Billie Holiday
	Nothing to Say	Jazz waltz duet that says it all
	Godzilla (A Love Song)	For lounge lizards everywhere
Ballads
	The Sun Shines At Midnight	An astronomical revelation
	Allison	Fantasia for a beautiful child, a luminous being
	Professor Whittemore	Who led me into the nth dimension, for all n
Gospel
	Good Enough For Jesus	If it's good enough for Jesus it's good enough for me
	Jesus Is A Real Man	Refuting the ancient Apollinarian heresy
Country
	Our Last Song	Nothing lasts forever