Member Since: 10/03/2007
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/tmrcreckoning
Band Members: michael ray cain - vocals, guitars, harmonica, percussion (also keyboards/bass)
mick morrison - guitars
ian west - keyboards
chookie rodriguez - bass
eddie white III - drums
Influences: many mystics and madmen (and madwomen)....various herbs and hallucinogens....mexican beer.....Elvis.....mr. mojo risin'.......(see dedications on credits page of cd booklet for more - "View My: Pics", above)
Sounds Like: wolves fucking....angels falling....gods laughing and hurling their empty beer bottles against mountainsides....
JujuBone says: "philisophical rock/slang/twang/fang and poontang...wicked and loving...not for pussies."
David Kulczyk (Sacramento), Maximum Ink Music Magazine: "Out of the festering land between Chicago and Milwaukee comes the Michael Ray Cain Reckoning...
amazingly brilliant...Cain takes every good song he's ever heard and interprets it into his own sound."
Jeffrey Jones, WOJB-FM 88.9: "..resonates deeply...like a call-out to the primal Archetypes to show themselves, and dance and party their asses off."
Dan Pavelich, Kenosha News: ".....spooky.....haunting.....one hell of a scary
road-trip."
Bruce Brodeen, Not Lame Recordings: "A truly eclectic, exciting and cool release..rooted in a lifetime of experiences on the peripheries of rock ‘n roll."
Mike O'Cull, Illinois Entertainer: "Cain is interesting and unique in a rough-hewn way..."
Blaine Schultz, Scene Newspaper: "Tunes that conjure up late night drives across the desert and converstations with a bottle of tequila. Gritty and to-the-point. Cain's writing is not for the faint-hearted, but worth the investment."
Chuck Eddy was Music Editor at The Village Voice for 7 years....he recently included "The Michael Ray Cain Reckoning / Aztec GTO and other Boss Sounds" on his 2007 ballot list for Top 10 EP's (Idolator Pop Critics Poll 2007)
Record Label: Del Ray Records
Type of Label: Indie