Melwood Cutlery

Melwood Cutlery is a Canadian singer songwriter, who puts forth a unique blend of alt country, folk and heartland rock, including ballads and bluesy roots inspired music. he's played festivals and venues across Canada and less frequently the US, from Dawson City,Yukon to Austin, Texas. Drawing on 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".

Melwood has an astonishing voice, both deep and tenor, often utilizing falsetto in his own inimitable style. In addition he has been known to yodel when the occasion demands.

Writing his own material, Melwood Cutlery plays guitar, piano and harmonica both in his appearances as a solo artist or fronting his "Taste Buds" band.

Including former Fashion Plate, singer Rebecca Campbell, singer songwriter producer, Lynn Miles and a bevy of first rate musicians. (Stuart Rutherford Dobro, Joey Wright Mandolin, Dave Draves organ, accordion, cello, Michael Ball Stand-Up Bass and Olivier Fairfield Drums).

Melwoods' 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 "Walkerton" and "Hagersville".

Melwood Cutlery has released five plus recordings: "Imagination" 1988, a collection of pop/rock songs that caught the attention of campus radio stations at home and in Europe, "Overstepping The Boundaries" 1995, recorded with Vezi Tayyeb at Kensington Sound in Toronto, followed by, "If It Rains" Metalworks Toronto, with Ken Myhr, a four star Globe & Mail review describes "a beautiful voice and powerful songwriting" then 2005's "Campfire" recorded in Ottawa at Little Bullhorn, from that album "Ballad Of The Moonlight Lady" received the OCFF 

"Songs from the Heart"  award (it included "Jimmys' Room ", which prompted, "the hippest songwriter around"  from David Francey, Scottish Canadian singer songwriter. more recently  2013 "Home In The Country" or HITC, which included "Hagersville" with Dan Whitely on mandolin and Chester Rose (Melwoods' son)  singing backup.

There also exists an as yet unreleased live recording (L.Stu Young) from the now defunct Black Sheep inn, Wakefield PQ.

 

Coming this September,  "A Complete Display Of Tackle"  produced by Lynn Miles , with the able assistance of Dave Draves at Little Bullhorn studios Ottawa, Canada. It will be available digitally and as a CD and on Vinyl, courtesy of The Johnny Scratch Foundation. In addition a book version of Melwoods' popular song "Loon On The Lake" illustrated by Elizabeth Sawatsky, will be available by Christmas of this year.

 

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