Cole Mitchell
primordial RECKONING

Perhaps it has something to do with perception...

We don't want this to be a story about a man that can not see, rather lets make it the story of a man that uses his inner vision to create a world where the trickster Cole or was it Coyote invites you into his den to share in a high desert dream.

From the first song Out of Control where we pull off of the fast lane and on to a road where the grass grows down the middle it's pretty obvious where we are going.

Followed up by Throw Me a Line where Cole explores a life uncertain in every way but resolute in the certainty of the obstruction of our own minds.

Nowhere in this experience are you more uncertain of the ground that you are standing on than in the song SMILE .

The song Rustic Side exemplifies Cole's Celebration of what many would consider the marginal side of life that ribbons its way through this CD like the Rio Grande, Cole goes so far as to mock the modern world by asking us all to "just come on out and show me what I'm missing every now and then".

Every once and a while Cole gets that smile on his face and you wonder if he has not figured out more than he is letting on but you have got to know that he knows that Primordial Reckoning would never have happened without his band of Curs made up of August Johnson on brushes, blue grass jewels Shelby and Jacob Means on stand up base and mandolin and on lead guitar Johnny Burns, son of Jethro Burns Nephew of Chet Atkins and former band leader for John Prine. Recorded and mixed just doesn't quite seem to do justice to all that magic by Keith Werblow in The Bunker, and masterfully Mastered by J.D. Geist, who has a unique talent for not killing the messenger with kindness, at Santa Fe Center Studios in Albuquerque.

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