artist Cold Coffee and Salty Boots

Cold Coffee and Salty Boots: A Brief History

Cold Coffee and Salty Boots were formed in winter of 2007, Ottawa Canada by Mark Alexander McIntyre and Jason Michael Vaughan. Initially the band started as an acoustic guitar and drums duo after their previous band, The Terrible Hooks, came crashing down after just 1 gig. Soon after McIntyre and Vaughan had 20 or so songs written and hung up on and around Vaughan's art gallery and painting studio's basement. Enter "Dirty" Diane Lachapelle and Patrick "Shock the Shanker" Shanks.

Now a bit more amped up and ferocious, McIntyre and Vaughan sat down to write another 20 or so songs and gave the new members copies of the lyrics and some chordal information.  A month later on McIntyre's 26th birthday Cold Coffee and Salty Boots first gig came and went. But did it make a dent? Not really. As time dragged on, the foursome gigged up and down Bank Street and even once ventured into the suburbs and once again, Sudbury.

Somewhere between this and that, the band asked William Guerrero if he wouldn't mind too much, if he could come down to the galleries basement and record a few songs over a weekend or two. "Yeah, okay. I guess."  The result was the bands 1st album, and sadly, their only chance to record with Lachapele who quit the band after some "creative differences". Rance Mok's fine Farfisa playing, (YES THAT RANCE MOK) appears on the album courtesy of Polydor.

In May 2009 the CC&SB family welcomed a new arrival to the basement nest.  Well heeled guitar slinger and all round good fellow Kris Thompson joined the band after a failed attempt to secure a job as an on set heckler to the cast of that Whale Wars television program.  "Kers Termsin" (his Sweded handle) has added a dash of spacey, lush carpeting to the bungalow of sound that is stewed together here in the nation's capital.

What will become of Cold Coffee and Salty Boots? Well, a new album is in the works; 20 or so more songs have been written. It looks promising that Rance Mok can get out of her contract with Polydor and join the band full time(ish). Let's hope they play in Sudbury again.

Yours forever and a day,
Herman Kapowski Sr.