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Posted: January 4, 2020

Jesse Cook is a talented performer whose "masterful, intricate, fluid and melodic finger-picking guitar technique and musicianship" have won him international acclaim and a JUNO Award, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy.

But critic Harriet Kaplan, writing about a November performance in Los Angeles, saw on stage what Cook also demonstrated in a recent interview: "The Canadian artist is not only a virtuoso acoustic guitarist, but an engaging and gregarious frontman." In the space of perhaps 20 minutes on the phone, Cook talked easily about a dozen subjects. The highlights are chronicled here in his words:

"It's hard to separate my own memories from my mother's. She claims when I was 2 - we were living in Barcelona - she claims there was this little toy guitar, and I walked around the apartment singing ‘Guantanamera.' My first real musical memory was being in Canada - we moved when I was 4 - and I remember going through my parents' 45s and playing the Beatles. I had a three-quarter size guitar, and I was strumming that. It's all jumbled up in the recesses of my mind! But secretly, there's a little bit of Beatles in everything I do."       Cook is set for Fayetteville AR: Walton Arts Center on Jan 10.

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