You've been listening to his music all along- you just didn't know it.

Max Carl founded Jack Mack And The Heart Attack, was lead singer on .38 Special's Rock and Roll Strategy, and now, with his band Big Dance, is the first artist on the Mission Records label. Long reknowned in industry circles as a composer, Max has pursued the lineage of rhythm in America, a fascinating odyssey snaking all the way to rural Mississippi.

A musician, songwriter, playwright and dynamic performer, Max Carl is perhaps an unknown, but he's a great unknown, and his time has come.