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Influences
big roads, small roads gasoline and diesel fuel wood, steel, and leather beer, whiskey, sex 6V6, 6L6 night darkness steel guitar motels with thin sheets and buzzy neon "five easy pieces" "inner skiing" "follies in concert"
hey...here's something new! here's the video for the song "free," off my "songs from the 6" CD. this was shot by steve hurst of louisville, ky, in 2001. the images on the TV are things steve shot while traveling with the band in 1998. dig it...
Texas honky-tonk stalwart turned Minnesota heartland rocker Mary Cutrufello is back, and back in Texas! Three years after being sidelined with vocal nodes, Cutrufello returns to the Lone Star state with "35," a taut and rockin' collection of songs showcasing her writing, her guitar playing, and her once-again powerful voice.
"Believe me when I tell you," says Cutrufello almost breathlessly, "Nobody is happier than I am that this record even exists!" And while it is a welcome return to the microphone for the multi-talented and articulate singer/writer/guitarist, it also stands on its own as her strongest collection of songs and performances to date. Guitars chunk, wail, chop, and make all manner of surprising sounds. The vocal chorus of Andra Suchy and Twin Cities legend Mark Lickteig offers daring takes on the traditional backing vocal role. And above it all is Cutrufello's rehabbed and rejuvenated voice, at turns proud and pleading, telling her stories of desperation and redemption, wonder and resolve.
35 is a long road, or a long time, or a point in life when it's a daily fight against the ossifying forces and the leaden pull of comfort. F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed there are no second acts in American lives; 35 is when you find out if that means you.
Hey Mary! Have a couple 'o king size margaritas Saturday night for me. Give Dana and Andy a hug from Ohio... Can't wait to see you and that GS Harper guy in September! Maybe he'll still be sporting a mohawk!
"35" is a great album. Here's hoping that you'll be recording another one soon. "Out Of the Fire" is my favourite so far. All the best Yannick from Cologne, Germany
Pulled into a truckstop late one night in MO. around the late nineties. Went to the laundry room to wash some clothes. They had a TV, I turned it on & there you were on PBS ROCKIN' OUT! Dig your music!
