"quick! get this thing trademarked!"
- Jeff L. of Seattle
"AWESOME!!! I'm still laughing so hard my eyes are crying. Having heard paul allen play in a small gig, I know he'd love this song. I'd love to hear this in person....
way to go! T-Shirt and 1 song CD: $30!"
- Chris H. of Sequim (The CD is only $2, Chris)
":-) way to go Ken!!!!"
- Bill H. of Port Angeles
Review of Ken's CD, Idaho Boy
This is truly a solo album, in that Cofield not
only wrote all the songs, does all the singing,
and plays all the instruments, but also, as his
liner notes tell us, engineered the recording.
The CD offers twelve songs in a variety of
styles, featuring clear, clean picking on a
Martin, tastefully ornamented by electric guitar
and supported by bass. While the guitar
work isn’t flashy, I frequently found myself
saying, “I wish I could do that,” particularly
on the trucker song “Watch the Miles Go By.”
Cofield labels these songs “New Tales of the
Old West,” but many of them could take place
anywhere, particularly the opening song
“Hard Rain,” in which a returning veteran
apologizes for yelling at the kids after he was
changed by what he saw over there. Its chorus
is universal:
"It’s a cold, hard rain that falls upon us
And there’s a deep, dark pain down in my
heart.
It’s a long, long way to the gates of paradise
But it’s not too late for us to start"
Greetings, Ken!
I am sitting here listening to your music and it sends me to places I have not been in a while. You are a great lyricist and your wonderful voice is evocative of some of the singers whom I most admired and have inadvertently lost touch with--people like Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Gordon Lightfoot and others. i see that has been my loss.