The Latest Release:
The new self-titled CD, Mitchell John will soon be available at Wal-Mart stores and walmart.com
Find Peace in the Little Things:
Now #2 on both the NCM Euro & NCM Country charts for the week of June 22nd.
The new single Find Peace in the Little Things, debuted at #4 on the Euro New Christian Music Country charts and #5 on the Euro NCM Christian charts, now #2 on both charts.
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"Mitchell’s voice fits as comfortably as an old pair of boots and the result is a record that is upbeat and fun."
-- New Christian Music News, April 2006
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"There's been a lot of hoopla about Garth Brooks' deal to sell his CDs through Wal-Mart. check out singer/songwriter Mitchell John's story. He's come from being a 16-year-old husband and father doing odd jobs to support his young family to where he is today - celebrating ten years as an independent artist doing hundreds of shows and selling thousands of CDs through his Wal-Mart deal. Mitchell shares his inspiring story in a new book Funded by Faith: An American Dream. Like his latest CD, Live at the Alberta Bair Theater, the book is available at Wal-Mart." -- Larry Holden, "The Scoop," Country Weekly,
-- Country Weekly, January 2, 2006
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CD Guide: The Mitchell Plan
Chris Jorgensen
CD Guide
Mitchell John
"Live at the Alberta Bair Theater"
Ta Tanka Records
Country singer Mitchell John brings it home with his new live album, recorded last year at the Alberta Bair Theater.
Born in Billings in the early 1960s and raised in Red Lodge and Oregon, John found his country voice and his audience the hard way. His father was a drinker and his parents split while he was still in high school. At about the same time, when he was still 16, his girlfriend got pregnant and they drove all night to Reno, NV to get married.
Those troubles, along with figuring out how to raise his new family, postponed John's dream of country stardom for awhile.
The, about a decade ago, he landed an in-house gig at an Oregon Wal-Mart and that led to more than 650 Wal-Mart shows over the years, where he continues to sell most of his albums.
John's wide range of influences, mostly for the 70's, is apparent throughout the new album, jumping from country-western songs like "A Hundred Steers from Now," to Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times," to Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" and even a little Elvis rock 'n' roll with "That's All Right Mama." And he dedicates "Always on My Mind" to his wife, the same one he married 28 years ago in high school.
John is a fine interpreter, puttin ghis own laid-back take on these songs, all backed by a tight, twangy band.
Along with the new album, John is also hitting the road to promote his new autobiography "Funded By Faith: An American Dream."
-- Billings Gazette (Montana), November 11, 2005
