Gregory Cook - Illusions [CD]

Besides being a long time collaborator with the legendary producer, songwriter and eccentric genius Jerry Williams Jr., better known as Swamp Dogg, musician and songwriter Gregory Cook has written songs and played a variety of instruments for artists as diverse as de la Soul, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Bettye Lavette, Funkadelic, Moon Martin, Rhett Atkins and others. Presented here is "Illusions," a rare solo album that Cook released in 1991, a very funky disc on which Cook plays all the instruments, wrote all the songs except two - one being an interesting cover of Sly Stone's "Everybody Is A Star." Finally available in the digital domain, all selections have been newly remastered.