Of course, if you’ve listened to the Yawpers’ music, you know that Cook has an affinity for grandiose stories with life or death consequences. “I was absolutely certain I was going to die.” I walked about 25 miles until I got back to a road and was able to flag down a car.” Cook said. “I wound up without cell service (then my phone died), without water, on a road bike in soft sand. When he got there, he re-routed onto an unpaved country road and quickly regretted it. Without realising it, Cook had planned for his route to go along a section of interstate in rural Kansas. Cook raised over $17,000 with a corresponding fundraising campaign dubbed “Go East Aging Man.” All of the money went to Sweet Relief, a nonprofit that provides financial aid to musicians who have fallen on hard times.īut, he almost didn’t make it. Starting on September 20 of last year, Cook pedaled his road bike to a gig in Tulsa, Oklahoma from Denver. So instead, Cook set a lofty goal for which he would have to train. “I think I would have drank myself to death during the pandemic had I not had something else to focus my energy on,” he tells BandWagon. Cycling almost killed The Yawpers‘ frontman Nate Cook, but it also saved his life.
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