Mark Cutler & Men of Great Courage live at Nick-A-Nees Friday, August 23, 9PM.
Cash bar.
No cover.
Dog friendly.
MCMOGC:
Jimmy Berger bass, vocals
Rick Couto drums
Mark Cutler guitar, vocals
Bob Kirkman banjo, guitar, vocals
Richard Reed keyboard
David P. Richardson
Mark Cutler’s latest disc offers up something increasingly rare these days, a great rock & roll record from beginning to end. “Sweet Pain” (75 or Less #…) is the follow-up to Cutler’s critically acclaimed, acoustic-tinged “Red”. This time around, Mark and his band The Men of Great Courage played mostly live in two studios (and occasionally his living room) with minimal overdubs. The 13 songs on “Sweet Pain” are by turns raw & raucous, dark & mournful, sunny side, spooky and yes, sweet. The disc showcases a master guitarist and award-winning singer/ songwriter at the top of his game.
Praise for MC’s previous release, “Red”:
“There are pieces that remind me of Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love” and John Prine’s “Diamonds in the Rough”. Cutler has a found a way of waxing plaintive while flexing a few muscles. Neat trick.”
Jim Macnie- The Providence Phoenix
Mark Cutler has been underrated for years. He is a rock survivor who keeps making great albums that connoisseurs will love and that deserve wider play. If you love melodic rockers like Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, then you’ll love Cutler’s new disc, “Sweet Pain.” Whether he’s busting out of suffocating circumstances in “Dirty Town,” chasing demons in
“Bottom of the Bottle,” meditating on romance or pondering the future (“I ain’t got no reservation on a salvation cruise,” he belts), it’s all real, all searingly honest, and all darned good.
— STEVE MORSE, longtime correspondent for the Boston Globe who has also contributed to Billboard and Rolling Stone and now teaches an online course in Rock History at Berklee
College of Music
