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Melwood Cutlery
7+ albums
Alt-countryfolkcountrysinger-songwritermale vocalists
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Melwood Cutlery is an underground Canadian roots performer who playfully describes his rock and roll inspired music as “Top Forty Folk”. He's played festivals and venues across Canada and the US, from Dawson City, Yukon to Austin, Texas. Drawing on three decades of wide ranging influence, his lyrics and the stories they tell cover a lot of territory – from his Ottawa Valley roots to the ancestral “Hills of Aberdeen”. Songwriter Melwood Cutlery sings and plays guitar, piano, and harmonica, both in his appearances as a solo artist and as the frontman for his band “The Candlesticks” featuring Fred Guignon, guitar and lap steel, Pat Giunta, bass and vocals, Ian Cook, drums, percussion, and Dave Draves on keyboards. Melwood's been described as “the hippest songwriter around” by cohort David Francey and his music features a sprinkling of blues and a pinch of jazz, offering cheeky songs such as “Moonlight Motel” (“everybody has something to sell”), the powerful imagery of “Aeroplane”, his ode to 911, and social commentary in his take on the trials of a little town, “Walkerton”. Melwood Cutlery has released four acclaimed recordings; “Imagination”, a collection of pop/rock songs that caught the attention of campus radio stations at home and in Europe, “Overstepping the Boundaries” recorded with his Toronto chapter band at Kensington Sound, “If It Rains”, recorded at Metalworks in Toronto with Ken Myhr, and 2005's “Campfire” recorded in Ottawa at Little Bullhorn Studios
