Winner of the JPFolks Music Awards for "Best Blues Album of the Year 2006" & "Best Rock Instrumental 2006" for title track. Mark has teamed up with some of the finest musicians in the Atlanta area - A must hear for all blues enthusiast.

15 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Rockin' Blues, BLUES: Guitar Blues



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Mark is the 2 time recipient of theâJust Plain Folks"
BEST BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR for 2001/2002
with his CD releases:
"An Evening With The Blues" & "The Promise Highway."

"An Evening With The Blues"
Received the 2003 "BLEWZZY AWARD" out of Florida.

JUST RELEASED for 2006 the new CD - "BLUE VOODOO"

This new CD brings together some of the most talented musicians to come out of Atlanta, GA all on one disc. This is one hot blues CD!!!!

As stated by John Taylor, Blues on Stage, âMark is one talented young man.â An accomplished performer on guitar, Mark has performed and recorded with many bands over the years performing all genres of music from Rock, Jazz, Country, and Blues.

Mark has recorded at the Bennett House in Franklin, Tennessee with producer Kenny Mimms, who performed many years with the Marshall Tucker Band and produced the solo album by Jimi Jamison, lead singer from the rock group Survivor. Mark had his television debut when he was featured in a T.V. commercial for radio station 107.5 WZZQ in Indiana.

Markâs love for writing and recording eventually led him to building his own professional studio where all three albums have been written, engineered, produced, and recorded by Mark himself. The mastering was done by the legendary George Marino at Sterling Sound in New York City.

Markâs albums have been receiving rave reviews and are being played all over the United States and many countries worldwide. He is in constant rotation on XM Satellite Radio/Bluesville, Sirius Satellite Radio/Blues, as well as internet radio stations such as: Electric Blues, Blues Deluxe Radio, and Radio Free Virgin. His songs have placed as high as #4 on the Blues Top 40 Chart, sharing the top spot with Bernard Allison and Albert King. He continues to place on blues charts everywhere.

For a great start to 2006, Mark signed a licensing agreement with Los Angeles based Noma Music. Noma Music is a well established and credited licensing company that places compositions into motion pictures, TV & pay cable TV, commercials, DVD, and other multimedia productions.

Markâs band, The Cook-N-Blues Experience, has been entertaining standing room only crowds with the music of blues greats ranging anywhere from Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughn to Jimi Hendrix and Robin Trower as well as many of Markâs original material.

Visit www.markcookmusic.com to read reviews of the albums and for information regarding tour dates, visit the guestbook page.
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Here is a listing of the artists (and a little about them) that I had the pleasure of playing with on this CD. Some have far too many credits to list them all:

Sean O'Rourke-drums/has drummed for Howard Tate, Pat Travers, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Derek Trucks, Francine Reed, and many more.

Sam Skelton-sax/has recorded with The Gap Band, The Ohio Players, Howard Tate, Matchbox20, Acquarium Rescue Unit, Edwin McCain....

Ric Seymour-vocals/vocalist for the past 12 years for the Wet Willie Band

Joey Huffman-Hammond B3/has recorded with Matchbox 20, Soul Asylum, Keith Richards, Georgia Satellites, Lou Reed, Willie Nelson

Lola Gulley-vocals/has shared the stage with The Pointer Sisters, Bobby Womack, Chubby Checker, Motown Recording Artist

Chuck Bithorn-percussion/has played with Donna Hopkins, Francine Reed, Anthony Papamichael

Larry Griffith-vocals/has played with Sean Costello, Taj Mahal, Susan Tedeschi

Steve Mays-bass/has played with Deborah Coleman, Forrest MacDonald

Andrew Black-vocals/has played with Forrest MacDonald, E.G. Kight

Mike Barry-trumpet/has played with The Gap Band, Howard Tate

Tom Gibson-trombone/has played with James Taylor, Peter Erskine, The Temptations, The Four Tops

Heaven Davis-vocals/has played with Buddy Guy, Walter Trout, Kenny Neal, E.G. Kight, Sean Costello

Steve Rusin-harmonica/endorsed by Hohner Harmonicas/has played on many independent albums