Cole & Ward album ‘Blues and Other Truths’

Cole & Ward album ‘Blues and Other Truths’ Artist – Cole & Ward Title – Blues and Other Truths  Label – Rawtone Records / Green Bullet records  Release date – 31st March 2024 Blues and Other Truths is the debut album release from Cole & Ward who are Mark Cole (Sons of the Delta, The Jigantics) and Liam

Ward (official Hohner artist, Liam Ward Band, Jake Leg Jug Band) and features original cowritten songs across the variety of American roots musical genres – hence the title. The twelve-track album not only highlights their songwriting but also their prowess as multiinstrumentalists, as between them they play nearly all of the instruments on the recordings. 

Quotes on Mark: "One rock-solid tune after another... strongly recommended"  Marty Gunther, Blues Blast Magazine "The songs are strong…excellently produced” Rob Scrase, Folkwrite Quotes on Liam: "Great harp playing - I learned something!" Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2  "Catchy, clever and complex but without histrionics" Bluesdoodles.com

The songs range in mood and subject. For examples, Deep Blood Moon is a tongue-in-cheek werewolf song, Midnight Motorway Blues about the inconvenience of nighttime road closures, Food off My Table a plea and protest against uncaring politicians and Itinerant Waltz is a lament by a musician who misses his missus. All the basic human day-to-day ‘truths’ are represented including love, money, alcohol, food and sleep. Inspired by traditional music styles of the

1.Deep Blood Moon 03:552.Ma Jolie Fille 04:023.Midnight Motorway Blues 04:124.The More You Drink... 03:105.Food Off My Table 03:596.Be Still My Soul 03:387.Weird Dream 03:128.Who What Where When Why 02:479.Itinerant Waltz 02:4810.Mr Big Shot 03:5311.Darling, Please 04:1012.Honey's Coming Home 04:02

American Deep South it's a roller coaster ride of emotions. You’ll laugh, smile, reflect, ponder and if no-one is watching (or you just don’t care) you’ll dance!

For more information on Cole & Ward and their tour dates please visit markcolemusic.com or liamwardmusic.com