Smart, emotional songcraft…Stonesy country-blues…prog-folk soundscapes: Travels with Charley inhabits a musical niche of its own. It’s a natural process: whenever multi-instrumentalist Doug Cox and songwriter Steve Mitchell sit down to play music together, Travels with Charley is what happens. 

The TwC story begins in 1992, with band co-founder, vocalist Jackie Janzen,  meeting Cox in a Victoria, BC blues jam. Soon folk festival darlings on the west coast, the trio records two critically acclaimed CDs and builds a devoted following. Sadly, in 1995 Travels with Charley succumbs to various internal struggles and disbands. 

Reunited on a John Prine tribute show in 2024, Cox and Mitchell jam  for the first time since 1996.  The consensus? Magic. 

With Janzen’s blessing to revive the TwC brand, the duo repairs to Cox’s home studio, where the songs from new CD The Journey begin to arrive featuring ruminations on family, friendship, and the meaning of it all.