Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Brad Cole to release "Hwy 200" on March 15

Hwy 200: Brad Cole CD, Release Date March 15, 2007

"My songs are about love or lack thereof… about being married or being single and wanting something that is or isn't there. Sometimes my songs are about people falling down. Going down and getting up is what captures me."

For more than fifteen years, Brad Cole has toured, played, studied, written and lived. His music is about his life-and our lives. If you're an adult, you get it. It's about the frustration of growing up. About the road. The road to know where, getting there and trying to get the hell out. Trying to get home.

Hwy 200: named for the glorious stretch of road on the Pacific coast of Mexico which serves as sometime home and all-the-time inspiration for Cole is an album that only a Chicago native could write and produce, only a devotee of the Old Town School of Folk Music could write and record. Like the singer-songwriter masters of the Windy City-John Prine and Steve Goodman-and like the Chicago rockers --Jeff Tweedy from Wilco and Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins, as well as Styx, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick, Cole's ability to capture the sense and sensibilities of the Midwest --- decency and authenticity-and his home base, Chicago.

"A brilliant town with a dirty mind" makes Hwy 200: an album that captivates, enchants and challenges. Hwy 200: is about relationships: from quicksand to magic carpet rides, mercy to murder, permanence, transience and everything in between.

"This is an ode to dysfunctional love, in all its pathetic glory"

Brad Cole has been part of the Chicago music scene for over 15 years. He was a founder of the ska-reggae-rock group Treatment that toured with Smashing Pumpkins as well as of dance-rock group Psycho-Love, which fronted for Timbuck 3 and the Bonedaddys. Cole and his bands have played at virtually all of Chicago's famed music haunts, including the Cubby Bear, Cabaret Metro and of course, The Old Town School of Folk Music. You can hear some of Brad Cole's Hwy: 200 at www.BradColeMusic.com The CD may be purchased at www.cdbaby.com . Cole will be touring this summer: catch him in Chicago, NY, Boston, LA, San Francisco, and other cities to be announced shortly.

2 comments:

Clay Eals said...

Good to see your post about Brad's new CD and your mention of Steve Goodman, who often doesn't get his due. Thought you might be interested in an eight-year project of mine that is coming to fruition -- a biography of Goodman that will be published this spring. Please e-mail me at ceals@comcast.net if you would like me to e-mail you a background sheet on the book. Or check my Internet site below.

Clay Eals
1728 California Ave. S.W. #301
Seattle, WA 98116-1958

(206) 935-7515
ceals@comcast.net
http://www.clayeals.com

Mickie said...

Hello Clay,
I try to include as many different artists and genres as I can in my blog because I like lots of music and I think my readers do as well. I will be in touch with you about your book- it sounds interesting!
Keep on rockin'
Mickie