These songs have been hanging around and growing in number year upon year. Lonely, quiet little folk songs that never found a home for one reason or another. These are good kids with something to say so I'm sending them out into the world.

This stock pile of unreleased materiel includes old gems, songs just finished, and maybe a little ragged, live performances, alternate versions, ones lost or forgotten through the years with a few beautiful little odd-balls collected for more than two decades huddled in basements, back rooms, bar bands, coffee houses, grange halls, clubs around the Pacific Northwest to concert halls in Europe.

Ahead of the release of his first studio album in over a decade, Abner Cole’s Cole Mine Collection will be an ongoing series of EP releases in intimate acoustic recordings hand crafted in studio or out in the wild. Brave and honest lyrics over six strings, some with ambient and modular textures, all direct and minimally processed. Abner wants to make these available to fans on an occasional basis and available ONLY through his website or Bandcamp.

Cole Mine Vol. 1 Track List

1. Mad Yeah So?
2. Heartbreak Waiting to Happen
3. That Then This Now
4. The Cold Chapel Hill
5. After All These Years
6. Long Shot

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One weathered voice. Six strings. Eleven sparse and introspective songs. All emotionally raw and honest. All downloads come with a booklet companion.

These songs have been hanging around and growing in number year upon year. Lonely, quiet little folk songs that never found a home for one reason or another. These are good kids with something to say so I'm sending them out into the world.

This stock pile of unreleased materiel includes old gems, songs just finished, and maybe a little ragged, live performances, alternate versions, ones lost or forgotten through the years with a few beautiful little odd-balls collected for more than two decades huddled in basements, back rooms, bar bands, coffee houses, grange halls, clubs around the Pacific Northwest to concert halls in Europe.

The Cole Mine Collection will be an ongoing series of releases of intimate acoustic recordings hand crafted at a home or out in the wild. Brave and honest lyrics over six strings, some with ambient and modular textures, all direct and minimally processed. Abner wants to make these available to fans on an occasional basis and available ONLY through his website or Bandcamp.
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A digital lyric booklet will be included with the full album download.