Good 'ole horn driven blues that'll make you want to move your hips.

14 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Electric Blues, BLUES: Guitar Blues



Details:
The highly anticipated follow-up to Kevin Markâs award winning âRolling The Diceâ is here⦠and itâs a doozy!

âCuttinâ Looseâ showcases 14 tunes thatâll take you on a ride from the West Coast out to Chicago â with a pit stop in New Orleans â all while maintaining Kevinâs unique sound and songwriting approach (11 of the 14 tracks are brand new originals) that has won this guitarist/vocalist/songwriter numerous blues awards and nominations.

Recorded at Hideaway Studios in Montreal, Canada, âCuttinâ Looseâ features long-time rhythm section of bassist Costa Zafiropoulos and shuffle king Rob âBig Daddyâ Marcheterre on drums â and sees the return of a three-piece saxophone section on most of the cuts â including Red Gauthier (tenor), Mat Mousseau (baritone) and Kevin Mark Blues Band alumni Little Frankie Thiffault (tenor), who also helped with the horn arrangements. Three tracks get a full 5-piece horn section treatment, helped out by Rachel Therrien on trumpet and Etienne Lebel on trombone.

Also making a return for âCuttinâ Looseâ is keyboard great Michael Fonfara, currently with the Downchild Blues Band. He laid down some mean B3 organ as well as some groovinâ piano lines.

Quebec blues singer Tina Dee rounds off the guest list by lending her vintage-flavored vocals to the Kevin Mark original âIf Your Phone Donât Ringâ â which probably includes one of the most humorous quotes on the CD; âIf your phone donât ring, boy youâll know itâs meâ. Great stuff!

To top it off, the CD was mixed out in California by West-Coast blues engineer Jerry Hall who has worked with Little Charlie & The Nightcats, James Harman, Junior Watson, Kid Ramos â to name but a few.

From start to finish, the CD is exceptionally strong. The tunes fly by and once those last few notes fade off, the listener is left wanting more. Most of the songs fall into that âclassic radioâ length of under three minutes â which is a nice change for a blues album. Kevinâs influences do peek in occasionally (and exceptionally so on the instrumental tribute to Albert King, appropriately titled âKing Albertâ), but this album is far from being a copycat of any exact artist or style â and refreshingly so.

This is simply good âole horn-driven blues that will make you want to move them hips!