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The Michael Ray Cain Reckoning

memento mori.....viva la vida

About Me

midwestern, chicago/milwaukee area band members (except for the one from L.A) who up until now have spent a good deal of time playing in the shadows - the kind that only dimly-lit, urine-scented dive bars can provide....but hell, some remarkably memorable moments that will never happen again....and isn't that what makes it all worthwhile?.....well, isn't it?.....a previous incarnation of the band dissolved as this cd was being recorded due to many factors which included some jail-time, so i kinda had to finish it myself, ya know? this new line-up, though visited by demons nightly (who are pretty cool to hang w/, but ya have to practice, right?), has stimulated me, to say the least, and if they stick around long enough to do a 2nd cd i guess i'll have to tell ya more about 'em.....but for now, just let me say - we've all had some pretty strange journeys, and the fact that those journeys have led us all here to this one place w/ all this smoke in the air makes it feel like it's the only way it coulda happened.....or maybe it's just all the smoke in the air.....we're gonna ride it for a while and see........................michael ray cainFree MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
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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

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Idolator Pop Critics Poll 2007...Re: "AZTEC GTO and other Boss Sounds"

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&rsquo...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:23:00 GMT

whadup people?

hey...anyone alive out there?....anyone wanna go have a Negra Modelo?......whadaya think of the music?.....what about that Negra Modelo????..................michael ray
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:02:00 GMT