September 12, 2023 • 7 mins
Murray Cook joins Jonesy & Amanda to chat about his band, The Soul Movers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello, Murray Cook, how I What I was hoping to
do was to start with have a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
This is the band with Soul Movers and this has
done what that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Soul Movers is the brainchild of Murray Cook and Murray
This sounds amazing. You're about to take this band on
the road.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, yeah, we've already started done. We've done a few
shows already and we're in Newcastle next week and yeah,
it's been great new album out on the road again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, can't keep me away. How many guitars do
you have now? Fifty fifty?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, I think something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you know them all? Like you said today, I
feel like stroking that one.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, well yeah, I have a lot of them out
on stands so that you know, I can just pick
one up and give you a go, because.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You've got it. You've got to have them out if
you have got them stashed away, yeah they're not.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, there's no point having them.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, it's quite satisfying to see a collection of guitars
just all together.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you have bass guitars?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, I've got bass guitars and mandolins and lap
steels and pedal steels.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Also, what about the double neck guitar.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm not really into that now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I think I just think it's too much.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, it's too much for me, but I just.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Feel that it's just come on, dude.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And there was a point I think like led Zeppelin
went a bit crazy with then they had the triple
next oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, and I think Rick Nelson from chead Trick
had one with seven necks that was just a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Swan too much, it's too much.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So with Movers and shape the Soul Movers. Tell us
about how the Soul Movers came about.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, Well, originally, Lizzie Mack, who's the singer, actually formed
it many years ago with Dennis Tech who was in
Radio bird Man, who some of your listeners might remember.
There were a couple and they did one album and
then they broke up. And and then I came across
the album and I'd seen Lizzie in venues and just
seen bands and stuff. She's really tall and so am I,
(02:02):
so you know, you could see each other across the room,
and but I didn't know she's saying, and I got
hold of this album and she's like a really great singer.
So so I just got in contact and said, let's
put the soul movers back together, and and we've done.
This is our fourth album together. Yeah, and it's been great.
It's a really great experience, and this one we're kind
(02:23):
of the most happy with it. As musicians always say
about their most recent album.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's it kind of country bluesy. How do you describe it?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, well, you know, people sometimes think it's the soul mover,
so it must be all soul. But it's more about
moving the soul than than actual soul music. But there's
there's a lot of souls here. There's some country tinges,
there's dumb Luck is kind of a bit stonesy. So
we've preempted their new their new.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Didn't she just? I don't mind that. Do you like
their new song?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I don't mind her technically.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Shade it's a little cliche, but I think it's good.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I think the I just I think I like the
idea of it more than anything. That they're still doing stuff,
and you know, like that's pretty inspiring for older musicians
that Nick Jagger is at eighty or eighty one or something.
You know, it's still doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I know you're a giant music fan and people report
seeing you at all kinds of music at all venues
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Do you still get.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Recognized as Mario? I know, if you're not wearing the red,
people still know who you are.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, especially if it's older people and young people. You know,
over the last few years, the twenty somethings who grew
up with us recognized me everywhere. People call out in
the street. But mostly they're really nice, and they really are,
and you know it's because it's a positive thing. You
know that the interactions is usually pretty positive.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You're not going to get a crazy fan though, really
not really nice.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There's not much of that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And are you looking forward to going back on the
road because there was so much trouble with the Wiggles,
so much travel involved. I know that probably was quite overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, it was, and that's part of the reason why
I retired from performing with them. But this is much
more manageable. We usually do weekends, you know, and then
we're home for most of the week, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Old people it's kindless.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's kind of the way most people too of these days.
There's not you know, in the eighties, when I was
growing up, it was, you know, six nights a week, people,
we're playing. But that doesn't happen very much anymore, excepted
for here in the Wiggles exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I think of O G Wiggles songs because I remember
seeing you guys in Woollongong in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This is the early days of it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's a trestle table and my son, who's now thirty one,
going along, look at these blakes and to see how
far you've come. But a man and I were just
talking about our favorite Wiggles song, Amanda You've gone Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is my favorite one. This one Hot Potato, Yeah,
Potato Potato, which I think is a bit of it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's a bit of a single. Really, it's a single. Well,
it's not an album trainer. I feel like the Wiggles stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's not a deep cut Potato.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I love this. Didn't Greg forget the lyrics to Hot Potato?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah he did once. Yeah, there's like eight words in it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He must be a terrible cook.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
My my favorite one is an album track. It's Wags
the Dog.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I think this song is still in your DNA Murray
because when my kids grew up and we'd say to them,
remember this, remember this, because they've been so deep into it,
and it's like puff the magic, drag drag, and it
had started to go a little and I was horrified.
Is it still in you so richly?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's It's funny because a lot of the people who
interact with us people on the autismic spectrum, and they're
still really into the Whiggels as adults, but they know everything.
And I sometimes get messages from one guy in particular,
and he says, do you remember in that video blah
blah blah you did this? Why did you do that?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Even remember them well because we did so much, and
we did so many songs. There are some songs if
we didn't play them live very much, I don't even
remember them.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I remember I used to write for a magazine, Live
to Ride magazine. I still actually have just recently started
writing for them. And we go on this big bike.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Ride taking all these bikes out of this with all
these bikey guys, and I was riding along and in
my headould swim like a fish from about.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Great to see the vision from the outside and then
to go in to your brain and what was happening. Yeah,
but it is such an amazing legacy, and you're so
loved and you're such a great musician, which is why
I'm sure people want to check out the Soul Movers.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The Sole Movers and dumb Luck check it out.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And also you'll see Murray Cook performing there with one
of his fifty guitars.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yes, that's right, Yeah, and it is. It's interesting with
the Wiggles legacy. As you say, we get a lot
of young people come along to the shows who are
just interested in what I'm what I'm doing, but they
stick around because and you know, I'm older. But we
have a real multi generational band. We've got some of
them members born in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sounds like a radio station sixty seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Quite the demo. I go to Soule Movers band dot com. Murray,
thank you for joining us. The rest of the chapter
there it is. I love it.
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello, Murray Cook, how I What I was hoping to
do was to start with have a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
This is the band with Soul Movers and this has
done what that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Soul Movers is the brainchild of Murray Cook and Murray
This sounds amazing. You're about to take this band on
the road.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, yeah, we've already started done. We've done a few
shows already and we're in Newcastle next week and yeah,
it's been great new album out on the road again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, can't keep me away. How many guitars do
you have now? Fifty fifty?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, I think something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you know them all? Like you said today, I
feel like stroking that one.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, well yeah, I have a lot of them out
on stands so that you know, I can just pick
one up and give you a go, because.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You've got it. You've got to have them out if
you have got them stashed away, yeah they're not.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, there's no point having them.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, it's quite satisfying to see a collection of guitars
just all together.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you have bass guitars?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, I've got bass guitars and mandolins and lap
steels and pedal steels.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Also, what about the double neck guitar.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm not really into that now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I think I just think it's too much.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, it's too much for me, but I just.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Feel that it's just come on, dude.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And there was a point I think like led Zeppelin
went a bit crazy with then they had the triple
next oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, and I think Rick Nelson from chead Trick
had one with seven necks that was just a gimmick.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Swan too much, it's too much.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So with Movers and shape the Soul Movers. Tell us
about how the Soul Movers came about.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, Well, originally, Lizzie Mack, who's the singer, actually formed
it many years ago with Dennis Tech who was in
Radio bird Man, who some of your listeners might remember.
There were a couple and they did one album and
then they broke up. And and then I came across
the album and I'd seen Lizzie in venues and just
seen bands and stuff. She's really tall and so am I,
(02:02):
so you know, you could see each other across the room,
and but I didn't know she's saying, and I got
hold of this album and she's like a really great singer.
So so I just got in contact and said, let's
put the soul movers back together, and and we've done.
This is our fourth album together. Yeah, and it's been great.
It's a really great experience, and this one we're kind
(02:23):
of the most happy with it. As musicians always say
about their most recent album.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's it kind of country bluesy. How do you describe it?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, well, you know, people sometimes think it's the soul mover,
so it must be all soul. But it's more about
moving the soul than than actual soul music. But there's
there's a lot of souls here. There's some country tinges,
there's dumb Luck is kind of a bit stonesy. So
we've preempted their new their new.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Didn't she just? I don't mind that. Do you like
their new song?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I don't mind her technically.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Shade it's a little cliche, but I think it's good.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I think the I just I think I like the
idea of it more than anything. That they're still doing stuff,
and you know, like that's pretty inspiring for older musicians
that Nick Jagger is at eighty or eighty one or something.
You know, it's still doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I know you're a giant music fan and people report
seeing you at all kinds of music at all venues
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Do you still get.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Recognized as Mario? I know, if you're not wearing the red,
people still know who you are.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, especially if it's older people and young people. You know,
over the last few years, the twenty somethings who grew
up with us recognized me everywhere. People call out in
the street. But mostly they're really nice, and they really are,
and you know it's because it's a positive thing. You
know that the interactions is usually pretty positive.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You're not going to get a crazy fan though, really
not really nice.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There's not much of that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And are you looking forward to going back on the
road because there was so much trouble with the Wiggles,
so much travel involved. I know that probably was quite overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, it was, and that's part of the reason why
I retired from performing with them. But this is much
more manageable. We usually do weekends, you know, and then
we're home for most of the week, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Old people it's kindless.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's kind of the way most people too of these days.
There's not you know, in the eighties, when I was
growing up, it was, you know, six nights a week, people,
we're playing. But that doesn't happen very much anymore, excepted
for here in the Wiggles exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I think of O G Wiggles songs because I remember
seeing you guys in Woollongong in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This is the early days of it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's a trestle table and my son, who's now thirty one,
going along, look at these blakes and to see how
far you've come. But a man and I were just
talking about our favorite Wiggles song, Amanda You've gone Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is my favorite one. This one Hot Potato, Yeah,
Potato Potato, which I think is a bit of it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's a bit of a single. Really, it's a single. Well,
it's not an album trainer. I feel like the Wiggles stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's not a deep cut Potato.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I love this. Didn't Greg forget the lyrics to Hot Potato?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah he did once. Yeah, there's like eight words in it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He must be a terrible cook.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
My my favorite one is an album track. It's Wags
the Dog.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I think this song is still in your DNA Murray
because when my kids grew up and we'd say to them,
remember this, remember this, because they've been so deep into it,
and it's like puff the magic, drag drag, and it
had started to go a little and I was horrified.
Is it still in you so richly?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's It's funny because a lot of the people who
interact with us people on the autismic spectrum, and they're
still really into the Whiggels as adults, but they know everything.
And I sometimes get messages from one guy in particular,
and he says, do you remember in that video blah
blah blah you did this? Why did you do that?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Even remember them well because we did so much, and
we did so many songs. There are some songs if
we didn't play them live very much, I don't even
remember them.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I remember I used to write for a magazine, Live
to Ride magazine. I still actually have just recently started
writing for them. And we go on this big bike.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Ride taking all these bikes out of this with all
these bikey guys, and I was riding along and in
my headould swim like a fish from about.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Great to see the vision from the outside and then
to go in to your brain and what was happening. Yeah,
but it is such an amazing legacy, and you're so
loved and you're such a great musician, which is why
I'm sure people want to check out the Soul Movers.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The Sole Movers and dumb Luck check it out.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And also you'll see Murray Cook performing there with one
of his fifty guitars.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yes, that's right, Yeah, and it is. It's interesting with
the Wiggles legacy. As you say, we get a lot
of young people come along to the shows who are
just interested in what I'm what I'm doing, but they
stick around because and you know, I'm older. But we
have a real multi generational band. We've got some of
them members born in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sounds like a radio station sixty seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Quite the demo. I go to Soule Movers band dot com. Murray,
thank you for joining us. The rest of the chapter
there it is. I love it.
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