California-raised, Texas-based singer/songwriter Amy Cook spent her formative years carving out a niche as an enterprising, independent artist in Los Angeles, self-releasing records and collecting revenue from tracks that she licensed to film and television. Weary of the grind, Cook eventually made her way to the West Texas town of Marfa, where she recorded a collection of lo-fi, cricket- and coyote-peppered originals that she dubbed The Bunkhouse Recordings. Upon relocating to Austin, Cook released The Sky Observer's Guide, which found a fan in Alejandro Escovedo, who asked C...