There are some people who you just scratch your head about when you see them. You wonder how they live, and what shaped them, what material they are made of, because it sure isn’t the cookie cutter stuff that most of us are carved from. Not to say that we aren’t all unique entities, but some of us are just stone originals, and so it is with Malcolm Holcombe.

I first met him in 1997 or 1998 in Nashville. It was whispered that he was living in his car or something at the time. He showed up one happy hour on the platform of Nashville’s Union Station Hotel. When I was at Lightning 100 Radio, we had started a weekly series there at the hotel, outdoors overlooking the tracks on Friday evenings. It made for wonderful punctuation when a train rode through. Malcolm came to one of those shows. I have been in awe since. It is like he drinks from a different well, or sees another dimension besides the ones we do. No doubt he has had a tough life, and yes there have been demons. But again, he carries such an elfin spirit about him. I know you will see it in this video we filmed a couple of weeks ago at the Cherokee Creek Music Festival.

Malcolm’s eighth album To Drink The Rain was recorded at Cedar Creek Recording in Austin. Welcome the newest member of the Music Road Records family, Mr. Malcolm Holcombe with “Down In The Woods.”

- Jessie Scott