Michael Corcoran's review of The Bunkhouse Recordings from the Austin American-Statesman

Welcome to our fair burg this "West Coast Girl" whose willowy melodies, attractive voice and gently pinching lyrics of lust and wanderlust make this LP such a delightful calling card. Don't adjust your stereo; those really are background crickets and cicadas providing the lo-fi touches that help make this more than just "fem folk" music, even as Cook sounds like she was raised on Joni Mitchell and never grew up. Think of an earlier, wispier Mindy Smith.

This record launches Marfa Records, started by Leisha Hailey (ex-Murmurs), and plants the flag for songs that explore expanded spaces of imagination, such as "Ballad of the Edge of the World," which strides buoyantly to the darkness, ever moving, ever dreaming. The big sky of stars and fireflies is made for music like this.

Debut Release from Marfa Records

On October 8, Marfa Records celebrated its inaugural release with Amy Cook's atmospheric "Bunkhouse Recordings." Spare and beautiful like the West Texas landscape, this debut release from Marfa Records presents a set of ten new songs by Amy Cook. Recorded under the stars outside of Marfa, Texas, "The Bunkhouse Recordings" are a set of intimate campfire hymns, sung for those who know that the journey is the destination.