Colin Cutler & BEYOND the STARS @ The Abbey

Colin Cutler

Folk? Country? Blues? Rock and Roll? Sugar, vinegar, or spice? When Colin Cutler shows up, it's all on the table.

Cutler is a Greensboro, North Carolina-based singer-songwriter, folk musician, poet, and storyteller toting a banjo and guitar.  Whether solo or with his band, Hot Pepper Jam, he is a wide-ranging performer whose musical roots draw from the breadth of American folk music—from Appalachian oldtime to blues to gospel to country to rock’n’roll—to form what No Depression has described as “one magnificent tapestry of roots music.”.

While his first few albums were directly inspired by his background in oldtime music, his most recent effort was even more ambitious and electric.  Tarwater was inspired by both life and the earthy characters of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, achieving "...a juke joint energy coursing through it and a humidity that seems to sweat out the sins and the booze that these characters…