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The first single off Cullen’s solo album is Black Mountain. It’s old time sounds takes you back to a distant time and describe a troubled man climbing a Black Mountain that’s rugged and steep, and his fear of crashing down before he reaches the peak. 

Cullen explains, 
‘Black Mountain is a song about the struggle or the daily grind of every day life, 2017 has been a pretty wild and busy year, recording two albums has nearly broken me a couple of times!. It’s funny being an artist, you put yourself in quite a vulnerable position and can often feel judged or critiqued by punters or even other musicians and sometimes it’s just the voices in you’re head. I suppose writing Black Mountain is kind of dealing with some of those negative thoughts in you’re life, letting them go and keeping on climbing.”

And climbed he has… Black Mountain is a sure to inspire its listeners to keep climbing even when going is tough. 

Recording two albums has not been Cullen’s only journey in 2017 as he travelled to the deep of south of the USA soul searching for inspiration. 

“Writing two Americana albums I knew I had to go and get some inspiration so I packed my bags and travelled to New York, New Orleans, Highway 61 to Clarksdale Mississippi and then to Memphis. The photo on the cover of this single is me on the outskirts of  Clarksdale, standing on the holy ground of the Mississippi Delta where the likes of  Muddy Waters, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and Ike Turner all came from”.

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