“Depicting life and struggles, monotony, and the boredom that so many feel living in places like ‘The Welcome Mat’ where money is extremely tight and how trailer park life eventually takes a toll on relationships.”
Don Aaron Mixon is the spelling on his birth certificate, and the name for his new double album release ‘The Welcome Mat.’
Raised in a trailer court called The Welcome Mat in Pensacola, Florida since age one, he spent three years on the road with a southern rock band when he left home.
He previously released six albums with different bands where he was the main or sole writer. “
‘The Welcome Mat’ is different in that it was 100% my vision, and my life story as the subject,” Mixon says.
He played and recorded everything himself with two guests, drummer Rob Hammersmith (current Skid Row drummer) on five songs and Russian violinist, Maria G on six songs.
This collection of emotionally raw autobiographical Americana Rock and Southern Gothic Blues Rock (and a couple melancholy rustic ballads) were recorded in Mixon’s personal studio in Atlanta, GA and on location in Pensacola (Lindberg Smith’s old garage & Pensacola Beach). The musical memoir would sit perfectly in a playlist with Bloodkin, Drive By Truckers, Blackberry Smoke, Jason Isbell, Allman Betts band, Marcus King, Billy Strings, and with technical instrumental guitarists such as those on the Shrapnel Records label.
“On ‘The Welcome Mat,’ it is all personal, true and autobiographical. Situational drama and comedy.
From the album’s liner notes:
Welcome to the dag blamed trailer park! This is the story of Don Aaron Mixon. True tales of being raised in the Welcome Mat trailer park, on the Florida Panhandle, in Pensacola, off of Davis Highway, in Lot D-2, from 1968 until 1988. Surrounded by bikers, wrestlers, perverts, peeping Tom’s & Tammy’s, traveling packs of school bus hippies, bands of roaming thieves, drug addicts, boozers, dope smokers, rock & rollers, hooker neighbors, acid suicide, swingers, feuds, fistfights, kidnappings, knock-down drag-out’s, hurricanes, tropical heatwaves, UFO sightings and true freedom in the wildest, greatest era in the history of Pensacola Beach and the mainland. Some of the names might have been changed to protect the not so innocent. Upon entering the park, you are subject to all park rules and regulations. No drugs allowed! No loud music either!
https://donaaronmixon.bandcamp.com/album/the-welcome-mat-a-southern-gothic-rock-trilogy
