Mack & Cook are Lizzie Mack and Murray Cook are two members of The Soul Movers, who have released several albums and are festival favourites. They are now creating music as a duo and recently released their first single, the slow burn ‘Time Goes By’.

What goes into this single is the experience of two of Australia’s most established and respected musical artists. Murray Cook is a founding member of The Wiggles, and a passionate music fan – I have seen at gigs of various types around Sydney, and can attest that he has eclectic taste – who continues to evolve what he’s offering as an artist.

Lizzie Mack is a singer with a phenomenal instrument, a gutsy, warm voice that has graced soul and blues songs and is now very well suited to country music.

This interview was a chance to not only talk to them about their history as collaborators, including the story of the Soul Movers, but to find out about their lives in music in general. I could not, of course, have ignored Cook’s involvement with The Wiggles and it was fascinating to find out about their work practices and ethic, and also not hard to see that Cook is still working consistently at his craft, as is Cook, who is just as interesting!

The song ‘Time Goes By’ is about having a lot more to give as people and artists – there is, of course, a cultural focus on young artists, but certainly the audience for any genre is not entirely composed of young people, and those who have lived longer lives tend to have more stories to tell. That is definitely the case with Mack & Cook, and hopefully they’ll continue to bring those stories to us.

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