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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumNew colors: cyan/white and translucent purple/white splatter. Includes immediate digital download from bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming of Fortitude via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 500$14 USD or more
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.Purchasable with gift card
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Buy the Full Digital Album
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album10 song CD in an origami jacket (with lyrics) designed by Ian Cooke.
Includes unlimited streaming of Fortitude via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 days$10 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumWhite vinyl in a 12" jacket. Painting by Ian Cooke. Lyrics on back. 10 songs. (Coke-bottle green is sold-out)
Includes unlimited streaming of Fortitude via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 daysedition of 500 16 remaining$14 USD or more
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lyrics
Heed the moves you know you need to make to get the
Leaves to grow so we can breathe. Don’t want the round to break.
The life to live is the kind in which you’re given what you give,
Filled with color and labor’s fruit to the brim.
Enough gut fire to persist without recoil,
No day will pass without victory.
Waking with immortal fortitude to toil,
the feeble sloth has been delivered a valedictory.
Tonight begins another cycle of the tide-master.
Mark where you are on the way to the summit. Log the climb.
Walk on the road. Walk faster.
Run to get the most out of the time.
Some days go by faster than we can seize and use them.
Try to not let this happen. It’s not good to lose them.
You aren’t a failure if you fall off of your horse.
No need to beat yourself up, you know.
Don’t get incapacitated with remorse.
Get on up, shake it off, pick up where you left off and go.
Make haste and get yourself resettled in the saddle.
Too long a respite will destroy any progress you have made.
Pace, pedal, pump or paddle.
Atrophy is tricky to evade.
Some days go by faster than we can seize and use them.
Try to not let this happen. It’s not good to lose them.
Heed the moves you know you need to make to get the
Leaves to grow so we can breathe. Don’t want the round to break.
The life to live is the kind in which you’re given what you give,
Filled with color and labor’s fruit to the brim.
Leaves to grow so we can breathe. Don’t want the round to break.
The life to live is the kind in which you’re given what you give,
Filled with color and labor’s fruit to the brim.
Enough gut fire to persist without recoil,
No day will pass without victory.
Waking with immortal fortitude to toil,
the feeble sloth has been delivered a valedictory.
Tonight begins another cycle of the tide-master.
Mark where you are on the way to the summit. Log the climb.
Walk on the road. Walk faster.
Run to get the most out of the time.
Some days go by faster than we can seize and use them.
Try to not let this happen. It’s not good to lose them.
You aren’t a failure if you fall off of your horse.
No need to beat yourself up, you know.
Don’t get incapacitated with remorse.
Get on up, shake it off, pick up where you left off and go.
Make haste and get yourself resettled in the saddle.
Too long a respite will destroy any progress you have made.
Pace, pedal, pump or paddle.
Atrophy is tricky to evade.
Some days go by faster than we can seize and use them.
Try to not let this happen. It’s not good to lose them.
Heed the moves you know you need to make to get the
Leaves to grow so we can breathe. Don’t want the round to break.
The life to live is the kind in which you’re given what you give,
Filled with color and labor’s fruit to the brim.
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from Fortitude,
released November 11, 2011
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Ian Cooke Denver, Colorado
Ian Cooke is a singer-songwriter who plays cello and piano. He often uses a loop pedal to layer his cello and voice. Over the past 20 years, he has developed a truly original style of music. His influences include classical, pop, film & TV scores, prog-rock, world music, musical theater, and jazz. He was born in Adelaide, Australia, and grew up in Greeley, CO. ... more
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Denver band est. 1993, including Ian O'Dougherty, Ian Cooke, and Whit Sibley. Unreleased songs from 1993 - 2005, including "Criminal" from Ian Cooke.
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Jackets For The Trip
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