Cotton Mather, FRS (February 12, 1663– February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New EnglandPuritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Known for his vigorous support for the Salem witch trials, he also left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention. He was subsequently denied the Presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase, had held.
Life and work
Mather was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Maria (née Cotton) and Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers. Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School, where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame, and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston's original North Church (not to be confused with the Anglican/Episcopal Old North Church of Paul Revere fame). In 1685 Mather assumed full responsibilities as pastor of the church.
Cotton Mather are a power pop band that was founded by Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas in 1989. What started as an experimental collaboration with cellist Nat Shelton (which Harrison now refers to as "Cotton Mather the Elder") had by 1993 evolved into a guitar driven pop quartet defined by accessible melodies, strong vocal harmonies and lyrical wit. They have drawn comparisons to the Beatles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Squeeze, and Guided By Voices. In his 2007 book, Shake Some Action, John Borack rated the Kon Tiki album at number 26 of his Top 200 Power Pop Albums of all time, comparing the album to Revolver-era Beatles, Big Star, and Apples in Stereo. NME suggested Cotton Mather might just be "... the most exciting guitar pop band since Supergrass."
The group (with the lineup Robert Harrison (guitar and vocals), Whit Williams (guitar and vocals), Matt Hovis (bass) and Greg Thibeaux (drums)) released their debut Cotton is King in 1994 on the short lived ELM label. The follow-up Kon Tiki, famously recorded on 4-track cassette and ADAT drew praise from critics and rock-stars alike. By this time George Reiff had assumed bass playing honors and Dana Myzer had taken over on drums.
The group's best-known lineup with Harrison, Williams, Myzer and Josh Gravelin (bass) released the 7 song mini-album Hotel Baltimore in 2000 and The Big Picture in 2002. In 2013 and with the same lineup, the group released a new studio single entitled "I'll Be Gone." They were rumored to be working on an all-new studio album, which was to be followed by a double-disc live concert album. However, as of Sept. 2015, nothing has come out.
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Cotton Is King
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Cotton Mather - Cotton Is King (1994) (Full Album HQ)
Cotton Mather's debut album. Released by Elm Records. No Copyright Intended.
Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock
---Tracklist---
1. Lost My Motto - 0:00
2. Mr. Should - 4:25
3. Cross The Rubicon - 8:12
4. Payday - 13:15
5. Miss Information - 16:28
6. Ivanhoe - 20:33
7. April's Fool - 24:27
8. The World's Boutique - 27:40
9. Saving Myself - 31:18
10. New King Of Trash - 34:43
11. Words Of Shaman Roger - 39:11
12. End Of The Line - 43:16
---Personnel---
Robert Harrison - Composer, Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Whit Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Matt Hovis - Art Direction, Design, Guitar (Bass)
Greg Thibeaux - Drums, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Bryan Martin - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Joe McDermott - Guitar, Guitar (Steel)
Ross McLeod - Keyboards
Susan Otten - Vocals (Background)
John Ratliff - Organ, Piano
...
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The End of Dewitt Finley
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Death of the Cool
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High Society
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The World's Boutique
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Cotton Is King
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The Army
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The Army · Cotton Mather
Wild Kingdom
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April's Fool
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The Words Of Shaman Roger
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King William
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Cotton Mather's debut album. Released by Elm Records. No Copyright Intended.
Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock
---Tracklist---
1. Lost My Motto - 0:00
2. Mr. Should...
Cotton Mather's debut album. Released by Elm Records. No Copyright Intended.
Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock
---Tracklist---
1. Lost My Motto - 0:00
2. Mr. Should - 4:25
3. Cross The Rubicon - 8:12
4. Payday - 13:15
5. Miss Information - 16:28
6. Ivanhoe - 20:33
7. April's Fool - 24:27
8. The World's Boutique - 27:40
9. Saving Myself - 31:18
10. New King Of Trash - 34:43
11. Words Of Shaman Roger - 39:11
12. End Of The Line - 43:16
---Personnel---
Robert Harrison - Composer, Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Whit Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Matt Hovis - Art Direction, Design, Guitar (Bass)
Greg Thibeaux - Drums, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Bryan Martin - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Joe McDermott - Guitar, Guitar (Steel)
Ross McLeod - Keyboards
Susan Otten - Vocals (Background)
John Ratliff - Organ, Piano
Jeffrey Reed - Assistant Engineer
Kate Breakey - Photography
Greg Calbi - Mastering
Erik Flettrich - Second Engineer
---Biography---
Cotton Mather are a power pop band that was founded by Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas in 1989. What started as an experimental collaboration with cellist Nat Shelton (which Harrison now refers to as "Cotton Mather the Elder") had by 1993 evolved into a guitar driven pop quartet defined by accessible melodies, strong vocal harmonies and lyrical wit. They have drawn comparisons to the Beatles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Squeeze, and Guided By Voices. In his 2007 book, Shake Some Action, John Borack rated the Kon Tiki album at number 26 of his Top 200 Power Pop Albums of all time, comparing the album to Revolver-era Beatles, Big Star, and Apples in Stereo. NME suggested Cotton Mather might just be "... the most exciting guitar pop band since Supergrass."
The debut album by Austin's Cotton Mather (a demo recorded in 1992, Crafty Flower Arranger, was never officially released, although it has been widely bootlegged since the group's belated European success), 1994's Cotton Is King is very good, but it's nowhere near as musically strong or sonically varied as its follow-up, 1997's Kontiki. A fairly standard indie power pop album of the mid-'90s, only Robert Harrison's uniformly strong songwriting sets it apart from similar albums by the Rooks or the Greenberry Woods. Bryan Martin's rather colorless production doesn't put the fine songs in their best possible light, but songs like "Lost My Motto" and the downright Beatlesque "Payday" are melodic and lyrically intriguing enough to make it clear how gifted a writer Harrison is. His voice, which recalls a less choirboy-like Glenn Tilbrook (the comparison is particularly inescapable on the astonishingly Squeeze-like "Ivanhoe"), is pretty wonderful too. Cotton Mather's later records would be even better, but this is a surprisingly good debut.
Cotton Mather's debut album. Released by Elm Records. No Copyright Intended.
Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock
---Tracklist---
1. Lost My Motto - 0:00
2. Mr. Should - 4:25
3. Cross The Rubicon - 8:12
4. Payday - 13:15
5. Miss Information - 16:28
6. Ivanhoe - 20:33
7. April's Fool - 24:27
8. The World's Boutique - 27:40
9. Saving Myself - 31:18
10. New King Of Trash - 34:43
11. Words Of Shaman Roger - 39:11
12. End Of The Line - 43:16
---Personnel---
Robert Harrison - Composer, Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Whit Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Matt Hovis - Art Direction, Design, Guitar (Bass)
Greg Thibeaux - Drums, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Bryan Martin - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Joe McDermott - Guitar, Guitar (Steel)
Ross McLeod - Keyboards
Susan Otten - Vocals (Background)
John Ratliff - Organ, Piano
Jeffrey Reed - Assistant Engineer
Kate Breakey - Photography
Greg Calbi - Mastering
Erik Flettrich - Second Engineer
---Biography---
Cotton Mather are a power pop band that was founded by Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas in 1989. What started as an experimental collaboration with cellist Nat Shelton (which Harrison now refers to as "Cotton Mather the Elder") had by 1993 evolved into a guitar driven pop quartet defined by accessible melodies, strong vocal harmonies and lyrical wit. They have drawn comparisons to the Beatles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Squeeze, and Guided By Voices. In his 2007 book, Shake Some Action, John Borack rated the Kon Tiki album at number 26 of his Top 200 Power Pop Albums of all time, comparing the album to Revolver-era Beatles, Big Star, and Apples in Stereo. NME suggested Cotton Mather might just be "... the most exciting guitar pop band since Supergrass."
The debut album by Austin's Cotton Mather (a demo recorded in 1992, Crafty Flower Arranger, was never officially released, although it has been widely bootlegged since the group's belated European success), 1994's Cotton Is King is very good, but it's nowhere near as musically strong or sonically varied as its follow-up, 1997's Kontiki. A fairly standard indie power pop album of the mid-'90s, only Robert Harrison's uniformly strong songwriting sets it apart from similar albums by the Rooks or the Greenberry Woods. Bryan Martin's rather colorless production doesn't put the fine songs in their best possible light, but songs like "Lost My Motto" and the downright Beatlesque "Payday" are melodic and lyrically intriguing enough to make it clear how gifted a writer Harrison is. His voice, which recalls a less choirboy-like Glenn Tilbrook (the comparison is particularly inescapable on the astonishingly Squeeze-like "Ivanhoe"), is pretty wonderful too. Cotton Mather's later records would be even better, but this is a surprisingly good debut.
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Cotton Mather's debut album. Released by Elm Records. No Copyright Intended.
Genres: Power Pop, Pop Rock
---Tracklist---
1. Lost My Motto - 0:00
2. Mr. Should - 4:25
3. Cross The Rubicon - 8:12
4. Payday - 13:15
5. Miss Information - 16:28
6. Ivanhoe - 20:33
7. April's Fool - 24:27
8. The World's Boutique - 27:40
9. Saving Myself - 31:18
10. New King Of Trash - 34:43
11. Words Of Shaman Roger - 39:11
12. End Of The Line - 43:16
---Personnel---
Robert Harrison - Composer, Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Whit Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Matt Hovis - Art Direction, Design, Guitar (Bass)
Greg Thibeaux - Drums, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Bryan Martin - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Joe McDermott - Guitar, Guitar (Steel)
Ross McLeod - Keyboards
Susan Otten - Vocals (Background)
John Ratliff - Organ, Piano
Jeffrey Reed - Assistant Engineer
Kate Breakey - Photography
Greg Calbi - Mastering
Erik Flettrich - Second Engineer
---Biography---
Cotton Mather are a power pop band that was founded by Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas in 1989. What started as an experimental collaboration with cellist Nat Shelton (which Harrison now refers to as "Cotton Mather the Elder") had by 1993 evolved into a guitar driven pop quartet defined by accessible melodies, strong vocal harmonies and lyrical wit. They have drawn comparisons to the Beatles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Squeeze, and Guided By Voices. In his 2007 book, Shake Some Action, John Borack rated the Kon Tiki album at number 26 of his Top 200 Power Pop Albums of all time, comparing the album to Revolver-era Beatles, Big Star, and Apples in Stereo. NME suggested Cotton Mather might just be "... the most exciting guitar pop band since Supergrass."
The debut album by Austin's Cotton Mather (a demo recorded in 1992, Crafty Flower Arranger, was never officially released, although it has been widely bootlegged since the group's belated European success), 1994's Cotton Is King is very good, but it's nowhere near as musically strong or sonically varied as its follow-up, 1997's Kontiki. A fairly standard indie power pop album of the mid-'90s, only Robert Harrison's uniformly strong songwriting sets it apart from similar albums by the Rooks or the Greenberry Woods. Bryan Martin's rather colorless production doesn't put the fine songs in their best possible light, but songs like "Lost My Motto" and the downright Beatlesque "Payday" are melodic and lyrically intriguing enough to make it clear how gifted a writer Harrison is. His voice, which recalls a less choirboy-like Glenn Tilbrook (the comparison is particularly inescapable on the astonishingly Squeeze-like "Ivanhoe"), is pretty wonderful too. Cotton Mather's later records would be even better, but this is a surprisingly good debut.
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Cotton Mather, FRS (February 12, 1663– February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New EnglandPuritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Known for his vigorous support for the Salem witch trials, he also left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention. He was subsequently denied the Presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase, had held.
Life and work
Mather was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Maria (née Cotton) and Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers. Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School, where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame, and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston's original North Church (not to be confused with the Anglican/Episcopal Old North Church of Paul Revere fame). In 1685 Mather assumed full responsibilities as pastor of the church.
She picked me out of the millions Thumbing an OED Dressed me down to civilian Cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone Said the word for alone is "alone" My before and after her x3 We found that R Mutt was truly Some work of genius She helped my best friends see through me Said the church of his holiness lied This world's no dead end it's park and ride My before and after her x3 Now I'm dangerously reprogrammed man Like that guy in the Manchurian