Member Since: 3/11/2006
Band Website: chrysmitchell.com
Influences: SONGWRITERS: Hoyt Axton, Libba Cotten, Steve Gillette, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Ian Tyson, Warren Zevon.CURRENT FAVORITE SONGWRITERS AND BANDS: Eric Bibb, Brave Combo, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Capercaillie, Tracy Jane Comer, Scott and Michelle Dalziel, Kris Delmhorst, Disappear Fear, Stephanie Dosen, Grada, Dezi Irwin, Brian Joseph, Kimberli, Les Yeux Noirs, Lojo Russo, Karla Ruth, Mary Lou Lord, Old Blind Dogs, Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman, Kristin Shout and Smoking Kitten, Uncle Chuck Finch, The Wailin' Jennys, Wishing Chair, Melissa Rose Ziemer.OTHER WRITERS: Jane Austen, Peter S. Beagle, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, T.C. Boyle, Albert Camus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, Sharon Olds, Theodore Roethke, Tim Robbins, Carl Sagan, Shakespeare (if only because of the Shakespearean allusion in the last verse of "New Sun Rising"), Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wright, James Wright, W.B. Yeats.MISCELLANEAOUS INFLUENCES: beaches, breakfast foods, clear desert nights, coyotes, dense fog, highways (especially moonlit highways in the wee hours of the morning), lucky breaks, mistakes (foolish and otherwise), mountains, mythology, prairies, rivers, snowstorms, thunderstorms, and, most important, friends, lovers, and even casual acquaintances.
Record Label: Time Check
Type of Label: Indie