: THE STORY OF COLE COBURN :

Imagine, if you will, a quaint drive down an old country gravel road in a town not yet discovered by modern civilization. You pass by a field occupied by dairy cows, a field of hay, and one full of corn. Then you drive through some " s " turns, over an old covered bridge, down through a hollow, around one more corner and you see him. Standing next to the road is an eight year old boy in over-alls, bare feet with a dirty face holding a small tree branch, that has fishing line tied to the end of it, in one hand and a stringer of fish in the other. That boy was Cole Coburn. Yes, Cole was a real life Huck Finn. Born into a family of honest, hard working people that were also full of musical talent. Cole grew up around good old timey backwoods mountain music often heard from the front porch or at the barn dance on Saturday night. Not unlike the blues, you can't truly play it right unless you have lived it.
Without realizing it at the time, Coles' music career started by singing gospel every Sunday in the only church for thirty miles. Later followed by elementary school plays where in fact Cole performed his first solo at the age of seven, during "I've been working on the railroad" Taking a step forward on stage and strumming a banjo fashioned from a round piece if cardboard and a wooden ruler. He proudly sang "FIE, FI, FIDDLY I O" and got a standing ovation.
Even at this young age, Cole was no stranger to hard work. He pulled his share of the weight in the Coburn house. He fished and hunted, worked the garden and family spruce mill. At the age of nine, he was pulling logs out of the woods with an old farm-all tractor that were later blocked and split into fire wood to kept the family warm in the winter months.
Being from a musical family, it was inevitable that Cole would eventually pick up an instrument and form a band. He had no way of knowing at the time that this effect music had on him was not normal. It came from a place deeper than his soul and completely consumed him. He found a rhythm in everything that surrounded him, like the old farm-all tractors' erratic sputtering motor was his locomotive, that drove Johnny Be Good.
Then came the moment Cole realized there was life beyond that small mountain village. There was no turning back. He began to write his own music and people liked it. In high school at the age of seventeen, Cole played two of his songs at the school talent show in front of approximately seven hundred people. It was the biggest rush he had ever felt. After a moment of shock, he settled right in and rocked the house. At the end of the second song, the crowd was on their feet and Cole was out of breath, but not ready to stop. Cole has been in a few projects since then and has played a great deal of bars. Now he is on his own, playing his own music again. The music that Cole writes, truly comes from the heart and soul of a man who loves his country and the people in it. It's not written for the music industry, it is written for you, and Cole greatly appreciates your support. It means the world to him. As Cole would say   " Peace and God bless everyone"

                         Thank you.

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