Poetic folk that moves the soul... that's what turns Coke Lindsey on. Raised in the hills of North Alabama and exposed to everything from the Beatles to Isaac Hayes to Jimi Hendrix, Coke's music is that perfect, eclectic blend that makes his music truly American, Southern, Soulful, and hippie all at the same time. When he was 13, Coke didn't sell his soul to the devil-- rather, he traded his baseball card collection for an Ephiphone acoustic. His life would never be the same. When his parents found out that he was teaching himself to play the guitar, his dad remarked that it could be worse; he could have taken up the drums. But it only got better from there. Coke was obsessed with the blues during his teenage years, and set out on foot to experience the real life of a bluesman. He slept under piers, in the woods a few yards from the highway, and on the livingroom floors of kind human-beings. He found out what Robert Johnson really meant when he sang "didn't nobody know me / everyone passed me by". After a few years of wandering, Coke returned to Alabama. He started writing songs about the people and places that he had encountered in his travels. Now he wants to share his stories from the highways and byways of the western hemisphere with you...
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