![]() ![]() The entry level iPad, the only iPad to still feature a Lightning connector should switch to USB-C by the end of this year. The iPhone 15, he claims, will beat the EU's mandate by a year, featuring a USB-C port in the fall of 2023. Gurman believes that Apple will beat the legislation's date of application in late 2024 with most of its products. In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple has been preparing to make changes to its devices to meet these new legal requirements. And it resonates with Cook’s own penchant to collaborate and create with others (see Megafaun and Hiss Golden Messenger, among others).AirPods Charging Case with USB-C port by Ken Pillonel.Įarlier this week, the European Parliament approved a new directive to force manufacturers to offer USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of devices in Europe by the end of 2024. This sense of connectedness resonates throughout the album. Every part you hear is meant for somebody.” ![]() “I still make music for my friends,” he said. It feels like shared experience being expressed through Cook’s “one filter.” Music originating from the Appalachians, the Delta, or the Bayou seem to have a heightened ability for such. Music has an incredible ability to create and enhance community. One vision.” Part of the album’s power is found in the freedom Cook experienced in making this record exactly what he envisioned it being. “The distinction comes from this being the first time I’ve ever put all of my experiences through one filter. “I guess folks will recognize little pieces from everything I’ve ever done all over the place, like a heritage quilt or something,” Cook said. I was lucky to play with some of North Carolina’s best musicians, people from all different scenes, and put them all in a room and make something special.”īut that musicianship and commitment to a distinct Southern sound wouldn’t carry the kind of soul that lives in Southland Mission without genuine experience and expression being woven into the lyrics and feel of the record. Cook said he is “most excited about the group of musicians that gave their talent to the record. Obviously, that stems from Cook’s own passion and orientation, but its folk influence extends to the musicians involved as well. The “Southern-ness” can be heard throughout the album. It captivates the listener from the initial gentle, almost lilting, chords in “Ain’t It Sweet” to the driving close of the sober anthem “Gone.” The marriage of great musicianship and real-life experience expressed creatively is a recipe for something wonderful, and that’s what Cook has made with this record. It is this beautiful collision of soul and precision. And, the result of that metamorphosis, pilgrimage, and 10 years of soaking in Dixie is the sound of Cooks’ forthcoming release, Southland Mission. And it led him on a musical pilgrimage to the Southland. That Wisco boy was being transformed into a hybrid – both Mason and Dixon. Appalachia, The Delta, and the Bayou were all calling to him.” ![]() His wife, Heather, wrote that Cook “was diving deep into the used gospel bin at the record store. He had been learning to pick a banjo, and the soul of Southern music had beckoned him. In 2005, Phil Cook packed up and departed from his hometown, Chippewa Falls, and headed south toward North Carolina.
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