Cole Fonseca and the Rattlers

COLE FONSECA WHAT A STORY TO TELL. COLE FONSECA 24 YRS. OLD HAS BEEN TO HELL AND BACK. COLE ASKED ME TO WRITE HIS BIOGRAPHY SO I WILL TELL YOU THE STORY OF MY SON. COLE WAS BORN FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH 1982. HIS FATHER A VERY SUCCESSFUL AND YOUNG FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTIONEER AND I AT THE TIME A BARTENDER. COLE WAS NAMED AFTER COLE YOUNGER THE BANK ROBBER AND AT THE TIME WE WANTED TO GIVE OUR SON A UNIQUE NAME FOR A UNIQUE PERSON. THERE IS SO MUCH TO TELL SO I WILL KEEP IT AS PLAIN AND SHORT AS POSSIBLE. MY SON WAS RAISED ,THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE, AROUND SOME OF THE MOST LEGENDARY COWBOYS TO EVER COME OUT OF CALIFORNIA IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED WOODLAKE. IT ALL REALLY STARTED BY MY POETRY AS HE STATES AND HIS GRANDFATHER BUD SWEENYS' COWBOY POEMS. MY SON IS A SONG WRITER AND VERY GIFTED WITH WORDS, HE HAS BEEN SINCE HE WAS A BOY. HE AT TEN YEARS OLD MOVED TO OREGON WITH HIS FATHER AND I DID NOT SEE HIM FOR FIVE YEARS. DURING THIS TIME MY SON WAS INFLUENCED BY THE MUSIC IN CHURCH AND HIS FATHER LISTENING TO THESE GOSPEL BLUES ALBUMS. ONE IN PATICUALAR "THE BLUES NIGHT" BY THREE GOSPEL BLUESMAN LARRY HOWARD, GLENN KAISER AND THIS MAN THAT PLAYS THE MOST POWERFUL AND I MUST SAY ANOINTED BLUES HARMONICA DARREL MANSFIELD. COLE DAD BOUGHT HIM A HARP AT AGE SEVEN AND WHEN COLE HEARD THIS MAN PLAY COLE TOOK IT PLACES I NEVER DREAMED. AT FOURTEEN COLE BECAME A STUBBORN LITTLE BOY AND WAS VERY REBELLOUS AGAINST HIS FATHER AND HIS DAD SENT HIM TO NASHVILLE FOR A YEAR WITH SOME CLOSE FRIENDS WHO WERE FARELY WEALTHY. THEY WERE ALSO IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS. COLE AT A YOUNG AGE WROTE HIS VERY FIRST RECORDED SONG IN NASHVILLE WITH ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED SONG WRITERS IN THE WORLD "JOHN HIATT''. MY SON KNOWS MUSICIANS ON A FIRST NAMES BASIS THAT WHEN HE TELLS PEOPLE AROUND HERE THEY JUST STARE AT HIM WITH THIS LOOK OF DOUBT AND THINK HE IS TELLING FALSE TALES. MAKE NO MISTAKE ....... MY SON IS TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. WHEN MY SON CAME BACK HOME I GAVE HIM MORE FREEDOM THAN HES HAD IN FOUR YEARS. HE DIDNT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SCHOOL AND I WANTED TO PULL UP STAKES. WE WENT TO VEGAS AND I WANTED TO SHOW HIM HOW PEOPLE THAT GO DOWN THE PATH OF LOWLIFES END UP LOWLIFES. WE WERE STRANDED AN EVENTUALLY MY SON SAW THE LIGHT. HE TOOK ALL HIS HARPS, HIS HAT AND HIS LITTLE PIGNOSE AMP AND PLAYED ON THE VEGAS STRIP FOR TWO HRS. AND BROUGHT BACK $72.34. ENOUGH TO GET US HOME. COLE CHECKED HIMSELF BACK INTO SCHOOL. AT SIXTEEN MY SON WAS MADE FUN OF, BULLIED AND GIRLS MADE FUN OF HIM. HIS FRIEND JAMES BRENSON SIGNED HIM UP FOR THE TALENT SHOW WHICH TOOK PLACE IN FRONT OF 2500 OF HIS PEERS. HE DIDNT WANT TO DO IT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE WOULD GET BOO'ED OFF STAGE BUT JAMES TOLD HIM " YOU HAVE TOO DOG... OR ILL KICK YOUR ASS" WHICH BELIEVE ME HE WOULD OF. COLE WENT ON STAGE AND HE TOLD THE AUDIENCE " THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME PLAY. ITS HONOR AND I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKE IT". SOME OF THE PEOPLE WERE MAKING GAWKS AND BOOS BEFORE THE BAND GOT STARTED. THE FIRST NOTE COLE HIT ON THAT LITTLE PIECE OF TIN ALL THOSE KIDS WENT CRAZY. WHEN COLE LEFT THE STAGE THEY CHANTED HIS NAME. BEFORE HE LEFT THE STAGE COLE TOLD'EM "THAT WAS FOR ALL YOU GEEKS, LOSERS OR UNPOPULARS BECAUSE I AM ONE". I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I WAS THERE.MY SON AT 17 GOT HIS FIRST GUITAR AND EVERYBODY TOLD HIM TO STICK TO THE HARP HE SAID IM GOING TO MAKE THIS THING SING LIKE MY HARP. THREE YEARS LATER HE WAS PLAYING WITH THE BEST AND MAKING AND RECORDING SONGS HE HAD WROTE. MY SON WAS NEVER REALLY RESPECTED BY SOME MUSICIANS BUT LOVED BY MANY. AT FIRST HE WASNT VERY GOOD ON THE GUITAR UNTIL ABOUT A YEAR AND HE ALREADY RECORDED HIS FIRST ALBUM. SOME MUSICIANS WERE HARD CRITICS ON HIM BUT ABOUT FOUR YEARS LATER HE SHUT EVERYBODY UP. COLE WAS ONE OF THE BEST SLIDE GUITARISTS ON THE CONTINENT AS WELL AS MASTERING IN MY OPINION THE STYLE OF HENDRIX. COLE WAS TRYING TO MASTER ALL THE STYLES OF BLUES WHICH I AGREE THERE ARE MANY AND HE WAS CLOSE TO PUT IT IN HUMBLE WORDS.AT 22 MY SON HAD MADE HIS NAME A LOCAL LEGEND AS THE FRESNO BEE HAD STATED AND STARTED TO CREATE HIS OWN BRAND OF BLUES. COLE AT EIGHTEEN STARTED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIS COUNTRY ROOTS OUT AT THE RANCH. HE SAT DOWN ONE DAY AND DECIDED EVERYBODY IS TRYIN TO BE JIMI HENDRIX OR STEVIE RAY VAUGHN. SO HE PUT A SLIDE ON HIS FINGER AND IT FIT. MY SON HAD GOTTEN HIS BOOTS BACK ON AND WAS LISTENING TO PEOPLE LIKE R.L. BURNSIDE,DAVE HOLE,BUKKA WHITE,HANK SR.,HANK JR. AND WAYLON JENNINGS. STAYING ROOTED IN THE BLUES YOU CAN HEAR A TASTE OF ROCKABILLY AND LITTLE TWANG OF OUTLAW COUNTRY BUT NOT TOO MUCH. COLE HAD RECORDED HIS THIRD ALBUM "BACK FROM THE SHADOWS" WHICH LOCALLY WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. COLE WAS ON THE VERGE OF GETTING SIGNED BY ALLIGATOR AND JUST OPENED FOR B.B. KING. JUST ONE MORE THING TO DO RECORD A LIVE ALBUM SO ALLIGATOR COULD HEAR HIM LIVE. DECEMBER 16TH 5:05 A.M. ............. 2005COLE AND THREE FRIENDS WERE ON THERE WAY HOME. THE DRIVER HAD TRIED TO PULL OFF A DRIFT WHICH HE HAD DONE BEFORE AND TRIED TO SHOW EVERYBODY WHAT HE COULD DO. THE TIRES ON HIS CAR HAD FAILED AND BROKE IN HALF. THE DRIVER WHICH COLE STILL GRIEVES OVER HAD DIED ON IMPACT. THE OTHER TWO HAD SUFFERED MINOR BUT SOME SEVERE DAMAGE. COLE WAS SEVERELY HURT AND FOR SOME TIME WAS NOT BREATHING OR HAD A PULSE. THE CORONER WHO WAS CALLED ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL WAS TOLD TO BRING TWO BODY BAGS. JUST IN CASE . MY SON WAS TOLD THIS BY THE CORONER A YEAR LATER AT THE THE BASTILLE WHO BOUGHT MY SON A BEER. MY SON WAS FLAT LINED WHEN THEY GOT THERE AT THE CRASH SITE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN JUST STARTED BREATHING FOR TWO REASONS ALONE GOD AND JOHN WELDON WHO PHYSICALLY PULLED COLE OUT WITH ONE ARM BROKEN BRUISED RIBS AND A LEG BEATEN ALL TO HELL AND STRAIGHTENED OUT COLES AIR WAY AND TRYING TO PERFORM CPR WHICH HE HAD LEARNED IN CFD CLASSES. EVERYBODY SURVIVED EXEPT FOR ONE AND OUT OF RESPECT FOR HIS FAMILY I AM NOT GOING TO GIVE HIS NAME WITHOUT THERE PERMISSION. OUR HEARTS AND PRAYERS GO TO THEM FOR THEIR LOSS.AFTER THE ACCIDENT COLE WENT THROUGH PAIN YOU CANNOT IMAGINE. PARALYSIS OF THE ARM 8 FRACTURES TO THE PELVIS TWO BROKEN LEGS ONE WITH A COMPOUND FRACTURE AND IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THAT IS THATS WHEN THE BONE PENETRATES THE SKIN. IT BROKE HIS SPIRIT. COLES WOMAN YVONNE STUCK WITH COLE THROUGH THE HARDEST OF TIMES. DURING THIS, SHE WAS PREGNANT AS WELL WITH HIS DAUGHTER TAYLER. FOR MONTHS WHILE BEING LAID UP COLE WAS IN BED IN DEPRESSION AND USING THE MOST EXTREME PAIN KILLER FOR AN EXCAPE FROM DEALING WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED. THAT WAS A DEMON ALL ON ITS OWN BUT AFTER USING OXYCODONE 80MG 6-9 A DAY AND QUITTING IT COLD TURKEY IS UNHEARD OF. COLE DID IT AND IT WAS THE BEST THING HE EVER DID BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW THE REAL COLE HAS ONLY BEEN BACK FROM THE DARK FOR TWO MONTHS AND HIS NEW ALBUM SHOWS THE TRANSITION. MY SON TRULY IS AN OLD SOUL.FROM COMING FROM WHERE HE HAS BEEN AND BEING A FATHER AND A LOVING BUT IM SURE AT TIMES A DIFFICULT MAN, ILL TELL YOU WHAT MAKES COLE FONSECA SO KNOWN. HE JUST GOT BACK FROM A LITTLE TOUR IN TEXAS AND HAS BEEN ACCEPTED TO PLAY IN THE WORLDS BIGGEST HARMONICA COMPETITION IN MISSISSPPI AND IS EXPECTED AND RATED ON THE TOP TEN. WHAT MAKES COLE FONSECA.... HES A REAL MAN AND HE DOES'NT LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING TELL HIM THE WORD.... CAN'T I created my profile with Myspace Layouts+