TWENTY FINGERS - Steve Mitchell and Doug Cox

The story of Twenty Fingers is a heartwarming tale of two long-separated paths reconverging in music and friendship. In the early 1990s, multi-instrumentalist Doug Cox and songwriter Steve Mitchell joined forces with vocalist Jackie Janzen in Victoria-based folk festival darlings, Travels with Charley.

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TWC, as it turned out, was somehow both ahead and behind its time. Frustrated by their inability to break through to widespread popularity, the trio splintered in 1995. And that was it. Except that it wasn’t. Nearly 30 years later, Cox and Mitchell found themselves reunited in the West Coast quintet In Spite of Ourselves, celebrating the music of the incomparable John Prine. Over the course of three sold out theatre tours of British Columbia and Alberta with ISOO, the two older and wiser musicians rediscovered the musical bond they’d thought they’d left behind forever. When Cox casually suggested formalizing a duo act, Mitchell didn’t hesitate.

“It was right there from the first soundcheck,” Cox recalls. “We could just hop right from blues and bluegrass to gospel and 1970s Hawaiian slack key without even talking about it.
Plus, there were all these hilarious stories that we’d accumulated.” “And there was all this affection,” Mitchell adds. “We just jammed, laughed and hugged our way out of the ancient misunderstandings.” Before long, four new songs were incubated, and a set list fell together. Twenty Fingers. Thirty-four strings. Two singers. One path.

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