Colin Cutler's long-awaited folk Americana album of songs rooted in Flannery O'Connor's short stories is finally here. The most ambitious of his albums so far and 8 years in the making, it is a collaboration with his own band and legendary grassroots performers from around Virginia and the Carolinas.
The project has already earned recognition from the National Endowment of the Humanities, No Depression, BBC Introducing, Glide Magazine, ArtsGreensboro, B-Sides and Badlands, and Twangville, while the last year has seen him and Hot Pepper Jam playing at Merlefest, Shakori Hills Grassroots, the Susquehanna Folk Festival, Antlers and Acorns Songwriters Festival, and the Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival.
"...had me at hello." ~No Depression
"a fantastic singer-songwriter." ~BBC Introducing
"Cutler exacts his performance with a galvanized weight, tied and bound with enough crushing power to shatter the heart." ~B-Sides and Badlands
Recorded in Greensboro at Earthtones Studio, the album includes contributions from Laura Jane Vincent, Momma Molasses, Aaron Pants, David Childers, Wendy and Dashawn Hickman, Rebekah Todd, Christen Blanton Mack, and Evan Campfield, each accomplished in their own right, besides Cutler's own band, Hot Pepper Jam (Emmanuel Rankin, Bob Worrells, Lu Furtado)
Read more at Glide Magazine.
David Childers will be opening solo, before Colin Cutler and Hot Pepper Jam take the stage.
DAVID CHILDERS
Singer-songwriter David Childers is the proverbial study in contradictions. A resident of Mount Holly, North Carolina, he’s a former high-school football player with the aw-shucks demeanor of a good ol’ Southern boy. But he’s also a well-read poet and painter who cites Chaucer and Kerouac as influences, fell in love with folk as a teen, listens to jazz and opera, and fed his family by practicing law before turning in his license to concentrate on his creative passions.