Sister Cookie - On Golgotha

Sister Cookie

Sister Cookie

In 2020, after everything went on pause, she entered the Record Store Day Unsigned competition. “Just for the hell of it,” she says. “When they rang me up to say I’d won, it was the day before my birthday and I thought it was a wind up because it’s always indie bands that win those kind of things. But after years in the wilderness, suddenly people were interested, I signed a management and label deal and things have gone further than I dared to dream.”

The album Cookie has created, In The Blue Corner, comes out swinging, and, blow-by-blow, leaves her core on the canvas – and speaks for itself; pivoted towards blues, R&B and jazz, its 11 songs, all scribed by Cookie, tell her stories, mainly sad and sensitive ones, of struggle and hard times faced in and out of love. Her lyrics, direct and forceful, are delivered in that hungry voice of hers, heavy with experience and imbued with deep feeling then wrapped in soulful arrangements with gospel accentuated piano and gliding horn section. There are influences of course, you can hear hints of Lavern Baker and Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Ruth Brown, but this album is cast in her own image.

Unafraid to wear musical roots but with her head firmly in the future, Sister Cookie has made a very special record indeed, one that illustrates the pillars of emotional life and is delivered with potency, empathy and a quiet authority.

Sister Cookie

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