![]() That gives me enough time to sit down and read and decompress enough to write music again. I’ve been taking it a lot easier the past couple, three months. I wouldn’t say I was burned out, but I was going real hard there for a long time and that takes a toll on you mentally and physically. It took me a while after I came in from being on the road to get back into a creative mindset. A New Outlook Brings New MusicĬole Chaney: I’m writing big time. I plan to continue with this traditional country sound that we have right now. ![]() But, I mean who’s to say that you can’t write alternative rock songs with a mandolin and fiddle in them?įor the time being, I like the direction that my music is going. With that, I don’t think you’ll ever hear my music without an acoustic guitar, mandolin, and probably a fiddle in it at least. That’s who I am, that’s where I come from. There’s not a whole lot I can really do about that and not a whole lot that I want to do about it. You need to chill out, take a few steps back, and evaluate your situation.” So that’s what I did.Ĭole Chaney: Let’s be honest I have a pretty thick Eastern Kentucky accent. It was almost like life just through a block in my way and said “No, I don’t think we’re gonna do that, yet. I planned on doing a kind of alternative grunge sound almost. I went a little more country and bluegrass than I originally intended on doing. Cole Chaney Finds His SoundĬole Chaney: forced me to find my own sound. If it hadn’t been for a lot of those videos that not necessarily went viral but got a lot of attention, especially locally, I definitely wouldn’t have had the momentum I had rolling into Mercy. I had to start doing videos and stuff like that. I think, what seemed like it was going to be a curse might be the best thing that ever happened. But, we only did one show together right before everything got shut down. ![]() It was kind of wild and it was called Cole Chaney and the Candy Holler Rhythm. We were doing country songs but we were also throwing like Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots and shit like that in there. Because I was invested in this thing and felt I like I was really starting to gain some momentum, locally especially. So, I came back home and I was like “I need to find something else because this is not really what I want to be doing for the rest of my life.” COVID Adds Another Curve to the RoadĬole Chaney: At first, I was really, really scared. I went out to do another weld test in Cincinnati and busted that. But, really, my heart wasn’t in it at all. Originally, when I came back home I planned on going back out on the road to go welding. ![]() Cole Chaney: Well, really, was almost out of necessity. ![]()
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