“RIVERS & ROADS”

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Engineered and Mixed by Howard Willing. All songs written by Katie Cole.

Except “Call You Up” written by Katie Cole, Jessica Clemmons and Steven Reid Williams.

Recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium, Love Shack Studios and the Bear’s Lair.

Digitally Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. Vinyl Mastering by Dan Shike at Tone and Volume Mastering.

All Vocals - Katie Cole

Keys - Tim Lauer, Katie Cole

Acoustic Guitar - Ilya Toshinskiy, Sam Hunter

Electric Guitar - Sam Hunter, Katie Cole

Drums - Victor Indrizzo

Bass - Glenn Worf

Thank you so much to everyone who made this album possible.

I want to thank my friends and family for supporting me over the years. Thank you to Howard Willing for being my rock and pushing me hard when I need it most. Thank you to the Smashing Pumpkins for all of the love. Thanks to all the musicians who helped bring these songs to life. Thank you to Craft Services. Thank you to Eileen Nelson for making this possible. Thanks to Ashley L. Evans for all the design work. And, thank you to Chelsea at Dire Image for all the glam, photos and videos.

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Thank you to my amazing Kickstarter supporters who have been showing up to gigs, livestreams and of course made this set of recordings possible. You have given me a platform I never could have dreamed of and I’m so grateful. Some of these amazing people include Joe Sestili, R.J. Santos, Trevour Meyer, Pam Fisher, Rick Suzumoto, Carlos Gnipp, James & Becky McKinlay, Tim McCrea, Bruce L. Moore, Gary Koshi, Bob Funamura, Steven Bearer, Heather H., Noni, Todd White, Lilla Thakker, Drew Foppe, Trevour Meyer, Roman Ciercwierz, Ben Pascus III, Jonathan Bouknight, Gerard “Bomber” Carroll, Robert J. Envall, Ryan McReynolds, Jason Reed, Ryan Boeckman, Todd Usher, T. Jay, Fernando Collado, Geofolkers, Joe Stadele, Chris Broach, Anthony Longen, Bryan Booker, Mark Charles Kelly, Fred Koehler, Mike Zoltowski, Todd Kirkpatrick.

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Thank you to these additional people who made this album possible: Annie Crofford, Summer Cristiana, Julie and Nicholas laird, Zac Cousins, Jenna Cousins, Alanis Sophie, Manny Vasquez, Priscilla Ruston, Alan Riggs, Kehaulani Sado, Matt Ortado, Richard Abel, Bob Carpenter, Amy Dignan, James Young, Michael Feakes, Clembo, Victor Finger, Damien Jeroni, Brian Honda, Tom Hess, Robert Ahearne, Corinna Byer, Skip Carter, Kirk Gaudi, Matt Heitmann, The Rebelskys, Adam Golden, Richard in AZ, The Behncke Family, Myung Park, Kourtney Pompi, Oscar Cantor, Heath A. Randall, She Wolf Radio, Dan Karlin, Jamie McSkimming, Rachel Rochette, Michael J. Webdell, Phil Lehman, Linda Conway, Dave Thomas O'Gorman.

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Graphic Design by Katie Cole & Ashley L. Evans. Photos by Dire Image.

Executive Producer Trevour Meyer

“RIVER FLOW”

Some people are the ocean so deep and blue and black

I cant tell if the riptide has come to take me back

Ain’t trying to walk on water just trying to find my place

But something a little wilder keeps calling my name.

Whatever it is, wherever it goes

Winding round and round through the highs and lows

Carving through rock, mark my name in stone

I’m like the River Flow

My life has seen some troubles I guess we’re all the same

When you want what you don’t have, but this hand-me-down’s ok

Yeah, I’ll take my chances  take ‘em with a knock or two

But nothing keeps me down if, I keep moving through

Whatever it is, wherever it goes

Winding round and round through the highs and lows

Carving through rock, mark my name in stone

I’m like the River Flow

Whatever it is, wherever it goes

Winding round and round through the highs and lows

Carving through rock, mark my name in stone

I’m like the River Flow

“CALL YOU UP”

Every light is on but I’m still here in the dark.

Got the music up loud trying to drown out all my thoughts, where to start

Said I’m in love, you didn’t say it back

A New York City heart gone black 

And that look on your face said you just didn’t fall

Was the last kiss we had the last one after all

All this time, maybe I was just too blind. 

So Should I call you up,  (should I call you up)

Should I call you up, or baby should we call it a night

Left me standing here going over every line

Downtown subway drawing circles on the glass tonight, guess that I

Held a balloon up and dreamed we’d float

But I can’t make you feel something you don’t

Coz That look on your face said you just didn’t fall

Was the last kiss we had the last one after all

All this time, maybe I was just too blind. 

Should I call you up,  (should I call you up) 

Should I call you up, or baby should we call it a night

Maybe you were never mine

That look on your face said you just didn’t fall

Was the last kiss we had the last one after all

All this time, maybe I just loved the lie  

Should I call you up,  (should I call you up) 

When it’s not enough (should I call you up)

Should I call you up or baby should we call it a night

“DREAMS OF MINE”

I had a dream, but what did it dream for me

Moving from house to house to house, living on shaky ground

And I was taught, value’s in what you bought

But I never had anything that good, still wanting for more than I should

Feels like a heart attack that wont go away 

When nothing I want , wants to stay

Searching for a little more than fine

With these Dreams of mine

I had a dream, and waking up is easy when you see

Lawyers and vagrants all ride, the same train home at night

It rains gold for some, that want to live fast and die young

Man it’s hard to go without, and it not be what you’re about

I can play the cards dealt to me

Pray the water don’t get much too deep

Searching for a little more than fine

With these Dreams of mine

oh oh oh, oh oh oh 

So  Whatever comes I’ll wait and see

Struggle through the chains longing for free

I’m Searching for a little more than fine

With these Dreams of mine

“MAYBE MEMPHIS”

She says this road looks just like any other road

As she fills up the tank somewhere in New Mexico

His voice still echoes I’m sorry in the dark of her mind

As the clouds roll in, her heart takes the wheel to drive.

She’s said Hello to Houston, he just left her bruised when

She landed in Santa Fe, that love just wanted to say, goodbye

She wants to give it one more try, 

So Maybe Memphis, this time.

Followed broken white lines for miles til she had enough

And Headed out west then left Phoenix in the dust

After he raised a hand, her note on the table just read

“I can roll with the punches, but this isn’t what I meant”

She’s said Hello to Houston, he just left her bruised when

She landed in Santa Fe, that love just wanted to say, goodbye

She wants to give it one more try, 

So Maybe Memphis, this time.

Oh don’t look back, that rearview mirror and what you had

Let those memories fade to black, just like that

She had a dream in Dakota, he never got to know her

Before she headed to San Antone, love left her alone, high and dry 

She wants to give it one more try 

So Maybe Memphis, this time, Maybe Memphis this time.

Maybe Memphis this time.

“YOUNG & STUPID”

Time is such a funny friend, we both just wont sit still

And the seventeen year old in me is still wants a thrill

When I’m higher than a kite nothing good will end

To be young and stupid again

Steely eyes and linen sheets, counting my mistakes

Finding out that mixing red and white dont make rosé

While the well-to-do and thieves both play me like a violin

To be young and stupid again

Clicked my heels a thousand times but Kansas, is so far away

The butterflies have all but flown, mama asks if I’m here to stay 

There’s no sympathy for dreamers, dreaming things that will never last

Weren’t we all a little like that

Clicked my heels a thousand times but Kansas, is so far away

The butterflies have all flown, never know if I’m here to stay

Technicolor fades to grey trying to hold on to the past

Weren’t we all a little like that

And in twenty years , I’ll walk back down the road I came

Chasing my tail but finding I’m the one that got away 

I’m human after all, still wild now and then

To be young and stupid again

To be young and stupid again

oh, To be young…