Merry Effin Christmas, Eugene!

Ho ho ho! I'm heading down to Eugene tonight with the family to play at Luckey's Club Cigar with The Underlings! Our favorite friends will be joining us for a night of Rock n Roll - The Homemakers, the Swing Letters from Bend, which features my old friend Chuck from One Man Running circa 1991, and of course Eugene's best garage rockers the Soothesayers! Please come down and join us, it's going to be a fun night. 21+ 9pm music start. So much to do, so little time to do it all; spend a little time with us and we'll all love you for it. See you there!

Ed Cole - Volcanoes

A special message from me to you regarding volcanoes. P.s. pre-buy my new CD for only $10! Use the Paypal button to the right side of this page. Thank you!

I get by with a little help from my friends

Before I moved to Portland in April, 2012, I spent my final months in Eugene working out the 10 songs that eventually became my forthcoming release, Interim. Over the last two years, I've spent a lot of time corralling and cajoling my various musician friends to play on my home-recorded tracks. Since I've been in Portland, I've probably spent more time working with Hans than just about anyone else. Hans and I met in Eugene, I don't remember when, but it seems like I've known him through basement folk and punk shows and through various random meet-ups. We both live in PDX now and I love it when he comes over on a weeknight to play after the kids are in bed. We'll lurk down in the basement, combining intertwining banjo and guitar lines, or blending fiddle with alien slide guitar to a neat effect. He plays around as Nettles J Oakland and is one of Baby Gramps preferred sidemen, laying down some great fiddle textures to Gramps' fractured blues-folk-throat-singing-stomp-chant. Maybe he has music on the internet - I don't know. The most recent thing we did was record his fiddle on the song "Aliens are Coming" at Haywire studios during my mixdown session a few weeks back. He is a great creative player who understands the random human condition conveyed through music. Thanks, Hans! Here's a clip of him playing with the famous Baby Gramps in 2010:

I am Ed Cole - help fund my CD release

I made a video, asking for funding. Can you dig it? Getting a CD made 100% on your own is a difficult venture. I've put 2 years into this great project, I need your help to get it the final yards to the finish line. Pre-buy my disc (or usb drive) album and I will delivery it to you when it is complete in about 4 weeks. Thank You!

Upcoming Holiday Rock!

I'm looking forward to this killer show, hoping to see lots of Portland friends there. Come out and support these rad local bands and arm yourself for the War on Christmas 4.0!

p.s. thank you to those who have donated to my pre-sale CD creation fund. Hit the button to the right if you have $10 to spare!