Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson [please support the music - buy for few cents]

Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters perform Black Dog live from Boston's B of A Pavillion in June 2013

Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters - 'Black Dog' Live from Boston

Grammy Nominee | Best Music Film: I’m In I’m Out And I’m Gone: The Making of Get Up! | Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite | Danny Clinch, video director; Ben Harper, video producer | 
Stax Records

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I'm In I'm Out And I'm Gone | Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite

Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy

Otis Taylor - trance blues -

Lance Lopez - Lowdown Ways, from his new CD "Handmade Music"

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Lance Lopez - Lowdown Ways

33-Lou Reed & John Cale -Nobody-But-You

Quick recording of Robert Johnson's Walkin' Blues. Traditionally played in open G which gives it a more typical "blues" feel but this has been recorded in open D. 

Walkin' Blues - Eric Clapton / Robert Johnson - Cover

Robert Cray Band - Won't Be Coming Home (Radio Edit) from the album Nothin But Love released by Mascot Label Group//Provogue Records on August 27th in Europe and 28th in the US.
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Robert Cray Band - Won't Be Coming Home (Radio Edit)

Magic Slim & The Teardrops: 06 - Hard Luck Blues

12 tracks recorded at Dockside Studio in Maurice, LA.  April 2019.
Produced and engineered by multi-Grammy winning producer/engineer, Tony Daigle.  Mastered by Jim Demain at Yes Master in Nashville, TN.

This recording project came about in 2018, at the urging of a friend of mine from Lafayette, LA.  He thought that my Piedmont blues style of songwriting and guitar playing was a good fit for the rhythms and sounds of Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco music.  He took me out to tour the infamous Dockside Studios in Maurice, LA, and encouraged Dockside’s founding engineer/producer, Tony Daigle, to attend my show in Lafayette that evening.  Tony did come to my show that night, and upon leaving, told me that if I were to want to come to Maurice to record, he was my man.  With the help of Tony Daigle and local drummer, Dave Nezat, we began to assemble an all-star cast of Lafayette area musical heroes and make a plan.

The lure of working with such an illustrious & talented group in this multi-award winning Louisiana studio was too good to resist.  I went home from that tour and began to write a collection of songs, specifically for this project.  I returned in April of 2019 to spend one solid week with Tony and the guys, laying down all of the foundational tracks. Over these past several months, we have added various instrumentation and harmony vocals and as of February 2020, completed all aspects of recording, mixing, and mastering.

The ancient Native culture of the South has been an inspiration as it relates to our travels and what has become an annual pilgrimage to the Mississippi Valley. This collection of songs represents our annual migration, just as my ancestors migrated from this region to the Western Plains so many centuries ago; sharing culture through music and more along the way. It is the product of our imagination of what was, and what has become our love of the sounds of the south.

Prisoner

Internationally acclaimed as a mesmerizing live performer, Cary Morin’s soul-stirring voice and jaw-dropping fingerstyle guitar playing have captivated audiences for decades.  

Dial into Morin’s career catalog and discover a musical chameleon whose sonic landscapes fuse together the best of American roots music. “Cary is a unique and brilliant player, songwriter and singer. I have huge respect for his style and technique,” says legendary multi-instrumentalist and songwriter David Bromberg. “If you haven’t heard him yet, you should.”  

Morin’s latest project, Innocent Allies, honors his family’s Native American heritage and is inspired by the genius of famous western artist, Charles Marion Russell. “This record is a masterpiece worthy of its place among the great works of art it was created to honor,” says Trina Shoemaker, the Grammy-winning producer who mixed and mastered the album at her Alabama studio. 

Morin’s music has reached millions as he’s traveled the world with prestigious performances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Paris Jazz Festival, and Folk Alliance International in addition to others. Morin has been featured on international television and radio programs hosted by the BBC and NPR. He has had the honor of sharing stages as a collaborator or supporting act for musical luminaries such as Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, David Bromberg, and Arlo Guthrie, to name a few.

Morin’s musical talents and creative contributions have garnered a multitude of awards and accolades: two-time winner of the Indigenous Music Award for Best Blues CD (2019 and 2017); Independent Music Award for Best Blues CD (2018); Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship (2018); and First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership fellowship (2017). He received an honorable mention in the 2018 International Songwriting Competition.

Morin has also achieved international recognition as a collaborator, dancer and musical theater composer. His song, “Ole Midlife Crisis,” written and performed with the Pura Fé Trio, reached #17 on France’s iTunes blues charts in 2011.  With the Red Willow Dancers, he performed in Japan as a special guest of the world-renowned Kodo Drummers. Back home in Northern Colorado, he co-authored the play, “Turtle Island,” a critically-acclaimed 50-cast-member production that sold out for two consecutive years.  Morin’s musical journey began in the late 1970s and burgeoned in the late 1990s when he founded The Atoll, a rock-reggae-blues band that toured the United States for over 13 years.  

Born in Billings, Montana, he hails from a rich cultural heritage as a Crow tribal member with Assiniboine Sioux and Black ancestry. He spent the formative years of his youth in Great Falls, Montana picking through guitar standards at neighborhood gatherings.
Morin currently maintains a busy performance schedule as a solo artist, as a duo with his partner Celeste, and with his band Cary Morin & Ghost Dog, a high-energy roots rock band. He also collaborates with renowned Indigenous artist, Pura Fé. When not captivating audiences across the US and Europe, he finds solace and inspiration in Northern Colorado, which he proudly calls home.

Prisoner

Cary Morin

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