How I Came To Cry These Tears of Cool: Colin Spring

"One of my first memories, if not the very first, is the Federales surrounding the van with their machine guns and German Shepherds."

That true story became kind of the genesis for this fourth album from Colin Spring as documented in the folk/Americana/ epic "Culiacan". 

How I Came To Cry These Tears Of Cool

1.Joe McCarthy Is Sweeping Off His Grave

2.Does She Still?

3.Lover, There’s A Light On

4.Give My Regrets To Broadway

5.November

6.Let’s Burn The Guitar

7.Chinatown

8.Life Out On The Fringe

9.Culiacan

10.Rosa,Rosa From Barcelona

11.Sistine Chapel Ceiling

12.Fresh Kill In Nowhereville

13.Bonus Track Spoon Mix

Some of the Artists This Album Was Influenced By

Lou Reed New York

Mojave 3-Excuses for Travellers Fred Eaglesmith-Things Is Changin’, Van Morrison-Astral Weeks, Greg Brown, Jackson Brown -John Stewart, John Prine, WarrenZevon, and of course yes Bob Dylan.

Contact :

gocolingo@yahoo.com

www.colinspring.com

Artist and Album Information

"Tears Of Cool" features Mark Pickerel (Screaming Trees), Jim Sangster (Young Fresh Fellows), Carla Torgerson (Walkabouts), Anne Marie Ruljancich (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter), Kevin Suggs (Shins, Brandi Carlile) and Artis The Spoonman (of the Soundgarden song). It was produced by Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, Briefs, Smoosh, Posies).

Colin is a fun and charismatic solo performer. He also plays with a band called the Post Modern Conveniences which is a five piece based in Portland Oregon.

Colin gravitates toward classic 60's and 70's folk in musical style and delivery but he also enjoys conversations about early 80's punk rock, counter culture movements and the literature and artsthat defined them. He tries to make music that is intelligent and literary while maintaining the warts of crude and beautiful folk art. You come in here for the narrative and leave with a piece of proletariat wisdom.

He has recently been selected as a finalist in the Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters Folk Fest and the Willamette Valley Folk Fest and was the Judges Top Pick to attend the Yakima Folk Fest.

Colin is an entertainer. He's a ramblin' man with a song catalog that can accomodate a retirement home or the dive bar across the street. And he will love them both.

He wants to keep you up until 2 AM in your living room drinking whiskey and playing music. Nothing pleases him more.

In the past year, he has opened for notable artists Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets' John Doe of X, Pat MacDonald (Timbuk 3) and Fred Eaglesmith, and he was also stiffed out of an opening gig with the Counting Crows and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's alright though, he got over it.

Discography

Dashboard Tallies, Pedestrian Kills (1998)
Meet The Sea…Or Be Washed Up (2000)
Cancion del Pollo w/ The Band That Murdered Silence(Dec 2004)
How I Came To Cry These Tears of Cool (Fall of 2005)
Good Looking Man (Winter 2007)

Press Reviews

♠Top 12 DIY Albums Performing Songwriter March 2006
♠Paste Recommends…..«««1/2!-Paste MagazineFebruary 2006
♠Balancing folk-rock intelligence and indie rock swagger, Colin Spring blossoms on his fourth album…a master of heartfelt story-songs in the tradition of vintage Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.-All Music Guide John D. Luerssen (author River Edge, The Weezer Story)
♠…the kind of tunes that make other songwriters look as if they've acquired language by mistake-November 2005 The Oregonian
♠Spring's exceptional storytelling skills and captivating lyrics keep the listener enthralled…vivid, emotional narratives never fail to leave one contented-November 2005 The Big Takeover
♠Spring lands in the company of the most important talents this town (Seattle) has produced in
recent years...Meet the Sea is the best album since Modest Mouses' second release -The Stranger
♠Spring's enormously insightful, heartfelt lyrics, which he sings in a narrative, Dylan-like vocal style, that constantly keep the listener absorbed. With nary a weak moment, this excellent LP(Cancion del Pollo) ranks among the most pleasant surprises of the year. -May 2005 The Big Takeover
♠Colin Spring understands the romance of a dirty kiss, the pathos of a sidewalk full of bandy-legged
drunks. -Everett True-music journalist/Melody Maker/author The White Stripes: and The Sound of Mutant Blues and Live Through This: American Rock In The Nineties

Festivals Played In 2006

• MLK Make a dream a reality Olympia Wa, 
• NW Folklife Seattle
• Edgefest Yakima Wa,
• Ilwaco Tall Ships Fest Ilwaco Wa
• Fremont Solstice Seattle Wa
• Yakima Folk Fest
• Yakima Concert Series in Franklin Park
• DaVinci Days  Corvallis. Or
• Salem Art and Fair Fest  Salem, Or,
• Island Earth Fair  Vashon Island, Or
• Alberta Harvest Fest Portland, Or,
• Granville Island Street Fair  Vancouver, BC
• Tumbleweed Folk Fest Richland Wa,
• Sisters Folk Fest, Sister OR

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