Press kit
News Release : Release before May 20, 2006
Cormac McCarthy
CD Release and Concert
7:00 PM
Saturday, May 20, 2006
at The Stone Church
5 Granite Street, Newmarket, NH
www.thestonechurch.com
Cormac McCarthy’s last CD, “Picture Gallery Blues” was called an “unassuming masterpiece” by the Boston Phoenix and word has spread that his new CD release, “Curious Thing” outshines it. Even before its scheduled release, “Curious Thing” is getting high acclaim from fellow musicians and radio personalities alike.
McCarthy is established as one of New England’s finest singer songwriters. “I rarely issue directives but, next time he comes within 100 miles you must go hear him!” (Seth Rogovoy - special to The Boston Phoenix). The Phoenix also chose his as one of the Top Ten concerts (which included Bob Dylan and Ani Defranco).
Two-time nominee for the Boston Music Awards, McCarthy tours nationally sharing his delightful humor and performing his finely crafted songs. He has what The Boston Globe calls a “devastating wit and enormous writing gifts, capable of putting chills into your spine or a silly grin on your face.” Cormac’s songs reveal some of the magic of real life in a truthful, superbly literate style, delivered with a soulful baritone and a hot guitar.
Recording at drummer Billy (from Twinemen, Morphine fame) Conway’s studio Hi-N-Dry in Cambridge, Cormac pulled in some local and national talent from the area: Billy on drums, Duke Levine on guitars, lap steel, dobro and mandola, Kent Allyn on keyboards and bass and Jennifer Kimball, Dennis Brennan and Kris Delmhorst on vocals. “A stellar ensemble” is what McCarthy calls them.
The new CD, Curious Thing is scheduled for its international release party at The Stone Church in Newmarket, NH. The concert location is a sentimental favorite: Cormac McCarthy introduced his first album there early in his career. Kent Allyn, Billy Conway, Bruce Derr and Sammie Haynes (from MAINESQUEEZE) and other members of the "stellar ensemble" are included in the inaugural concert. Curious Things is the latest CD form one of the most brilliant songwriters to rise out of the contemporary folk scene.
Reviews:
For short excerpts from reviewers of Cormac in concert, in workshops, in master classes or as a guide in contemporary oral history see: Reviews
For an "on the ground" report of Cormac in concert see the in-depth review by Seth Rogovoy at Birch Tree Concert Series
For insight into Cormac McCarthy in college and high school music songwriting workshops see:More reviews: what happens at a workshop Workshops and then see More Reviews of Workshops.
In a collaboration that crosses time and space, Cormac McCarthy and Woodie Guthrie share the stage in Hard Times and Good Times in America . The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl are explored through the songs of Woody Guthrie with stories and vignettes provided by Cormac McCarthy. This concert reminds us of the power of oral history by presenting the historic and economic events as if they were intimate, personal, and current assaults. Reviews of the Woody Guthrie Show.
Photo Downloads: download from the links below or contact Cormac for additional publicity photos.
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A distinctive songwriter with a warm, powerful, inherently melodic baritone, a fine guitarist and a devastating wit ... enormous writing gifts, capable of putting chills into your spine or a silly grin on your face..." - -Jeff McLaughlin, The Boston Globe
Special Recognition:
Best New Albums: Troubled Sleep,The Hartford Herald
Boston Music Awards, Nominations: Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Album: and Outstanding Folk Act
Boston Globe Ten Best Folk Concerts: Christy Moore and Cormac McCarthy at the Sanders Theater.
Contact Cormac
Reviews of the Woody Guthrie Show
Workshops and More Reviews of Workshops
Discography and
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