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Mark Cool And The Folk Stars
3+ albums
Alt-countryamericanapost grunge folkpost hitching postpost folk core
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Bio: Mark Cool's grandfather played banjo and had a radio show with his bluegrass trio before Mark was born. Cool's dad collected Johnny Cash lp's and fed him a steady diet of am radio country music. When he was a kid, his collective family (a group "hippies" living communally) would host touring folkies and put on concerts. All of this combined with being a guitar student of Libba Cotten's accompaniest and disciple, Dana Klipp, as a teen, seems to have been absorbed by the artist and regurgitated in music that's been compared to Townes Van Zandt, Nebraska-era Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, Lambchop, even Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. "...Honesty, integrity, simplicity, humour, understatement, restraint, a certain joire de vivre that can only be found in folk who know exactly where the bottom and the top can be found, catharsis, realisation..." says Paul Villers of Americana UK Magazine in describing the Durham, NC songwriter's August, 2007 release, "Introducing Mark Cool and the Folk Stars." Cool is currently on tour in support of the album, combining traditional venues with his "100 house concerts tour." "I'm not stopping 'til I've played 100 living rooms, backyards or other atraditional venues where I get to really connect with people through the music" he says. Mark Cool (yes, that's his real name), formed the band "Mark Cool and the Folk Stars" in 2006 and started playing shows locally in Durham and surrounding areas. Cool started with some songs from his 9 years in Lo
