A personal note to all buyers and potential buyers--thank you so much for checking my page out...my cds are very much guitar oriented tracks that reflect my many years of studying the blues-blues rock greats--i remember as a kid looking for guitar inspiring cds so i could hone my chops-i loved and still do many guitar instrumentals by the likes of buddy guy,freddy king,eric clapton,jimmy page,jimi hendrix,stevie ray vaughn,jimmy vaughn,duke robillard,pee wee crayton,clarence gatemouth brown,jeff beck,albert king,bb king,tommy castro,walter trout, and so on so forth! my productions are not perfect--they are raw but i put all my heart and soul into my works---so cheers to all out there---keep an eye out for my band double barrel blues band---our cd is up--check it out as well!!thanks mark c
many thanks to my online collaborators as well--you know who you are!
This CD is all about the passion for the Fender Strat guitar.. 6 strings of passion features loren risker on keys-piano-organ-drums as well as dace the ace on backing track for lend a hand!!mark cloutier is featured on the fender strat.
review by rootstime blues magazine in belgium!! english translation!! best i could come up with!
Mark of Cloutier is bluesrock guitarist from New York. He's been working 18 years in the New York blues scène. Initially as a guitarist with the Dirty pool, later as a solo artist and recently with with Double Barrel Blues band. `6 Strings or Passion' is his second album under his own name. The cd contains 13 instrumental numbers, all of them self produced. Outside some numbers most of the tracks average about 2:min-30 seconds whick makes for a great short and sweet listen . This makes whole more digestible, because no note is sung on this album. One has tried bring variation in the numbers. Sometimes he goes hard time like a roaring jet and sometimes prefers the subtle work. By using distortion on some numbers, they remain in the same consonance colour, also with the quiet passages. his guitar sound-style have been clearly influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. mark Cloutier can play with intensity and it is clear. He was exclaimed in 1997, to best guitarist in The Central New York Blues connection. In the meantime we are 11 years further and are skills have still improved. `6 Strings or Passion' can be considered as a steel card of what has the man in house. But it is no easy lustre fodder for the most of music devotees. It is firm costs for bluesrock followers who do not shun the harder work. if He had appealed to a vocalist he certainly reached an even wider audience with this album. the music is technically really soulful and good, it stands convex of high-minded solo and tempo rotations. With this cd mark expresses his passion for the Fender Strat. In this he has certainly succeeded. For me it a cool side project that has become a link to his work with the Double Barrel Blues Band . Bootsy more lester
review by rootstime blues magazine in belgium!! dutsch language!!
MARK CLOUTIER
6 STRINGS OF PASSION
Website CDBaby
Label : Blues Lion Records
Mark Cloutier is een bluesrock gitarist uit New York. Hij draait al 18 jaar mee in het New Yorkse bluesscène. Oorspronkelijk als gitarist bij de band Dirty Pool, later met zijn eigen band en recent ook met Double Barrel Blues Band. ‘6 Strings Of Passion’ is zijn tweede album onder eigen naam. De cd bevat 13 instrumentale nummers, allemaal van eigen makelij. Buiten enkele nummers van 4 minuten zijn de meeste nummers zeer compact gehouden met een gemiddelde duur van 2min30. Dit maakt het geheel verteerbaarder, want er wordt geen noot gezongen op dit album. Men heeft geprobeerd om variatie in de nummers te brengen. Soms gaat hij hard te keer op zijn gitaar en soms verkiest hij het subtielere werk. Door bij alle nummers distortion te gebruiken, blijven ze in dezelfde klankkleur, ook bij de rustige passages. Zijn gitaarsound is duidelijk beïnvloed door Jimi Hendrix en Stevie Ray Vaughan. Dat Mark Cloutier gitaar kan spelen is duidelijk. Hij werd in 1997 uitgeroepen tot beste gitarist in The Central New York Blues Magazine. Ondertussen zijn wij 11 jaar verder en zijn skills zijn nog verbeterd. ‘6 Strings Of Passion’ kan beschouwd worden als een staalkaart van wat de man in huis heeft. Maar het is geen gemakkelijk luistervoer voor de meeste muziekliefhebbers. Het is stevige kost voor bluesrock adepten die het hardere werk niet schuwen. Had hij beroep gedaan op een zanger dan had hij zeker nog een ruimer publiek kunnen bereiken met dit album. Technisch zit zijn muziek knap in elkaar, ze staat bol van hoogstaande solo’s en tempowisselingen. Met deze cd wilde Mark zijn passie voor zijn Fender Strat uitdrukken. Daarin is hij zeker geslaagd. Voor mij is het een visitekaartje geworden om ook zijn werk in band met een zanger, zoals in Double Barrel Blues Band, te willen ontdekken.
Bootsy Lester
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news paper interview link
Fri, May 30, 2008, 5:56 PM Here are the links that put East Syracuse guitarist Mark Cloutier up and running online
Posted by Mark Bialczak May 15, 2008 6:00AM
Categories: More from interview, Passing on a link, Song clip
Dick Blume/The Post-Standard
Mark Cloutier plays guitar into his computer at home in East Syracuse. If you haven't already, I hope you get the chance to read my story about East Syracuse guitarist Mark Cloutier's success since he decided to jump into the worldwide online music community
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Mark Bialczak
Staff writer
Guitarist Mark Cloutier smiles about his part on the CD "New English Blues" by British veteran J.C. Carroll.
He thinks it's cool that his work is getting radio play on the BBC.
Reviews in the United Kingdom have been hot. "In the tradition of the Who's 'Tommy' and Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon,' this magnificent album explores the melancholy and outrage that is at the heart of the English psyche," wrote a reviewer in the newspaper London Music.
And to think that the Central New York bluesman did it all without leaving the simple home studio - which cost $200 - he set up in his home in East Syracuse.
The only way Cloutier and Carroll have ever met is online.
"We developed a mutual friendship through musicians' Web sites," Cloutier says.
They've traded music back and forth with MP3 files, a computer format that allows music to be sent online.
As soon as Carroll heard Cloutier's distinctive guitar sound, he wanted to include him on his album.
"The Internet is rammed full of guys in their bedrooms uploading their shredding on guitar," Carroll writes, appropriately enough, in an e-mail from London. "Although Mark mainly plays the blues, he has something about his sound that is unique, and you can tell it is him straight away."
Carroll used Cloutier's guitar work on three of the dozen songs on the CD.
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Guitarist Mark Cloutier has 18 years of experience playing the blues in Central New York. The former guitar man of Dirty Pool has played many major blues fests in past years, notably, the New York State Blues Fest, the Chenango Blues Fest, and Blues in the Bay. Mark was voted best guitar player in The Central New York Blues Magazine in (1997). The Syracuse Sammy Award Committee also nominated his band three consecutive years for best blues band(the dirty pool).we also won a sammy award for best blues jam at the famous Dinosaur BBQ---
You can catch mark live with his new band the double barrel blues band and keep track of his schedule and happenings happenings at www.myspace.com/markcloutier-- the band is FEATURED AT SEVERAL TOP NOTCH FESTIVALS THIS YEAR!! VERY BUSY SUMMER!!
Upcoming Shows ( view all )
note the new york state blues fest and blues in the bay!!!
Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 21 2008 5:00P
iron block harley 105th anniversary ride-outdoor concert adams center, New York
Aug 23 2008 10:00A
street festival-[paddock arcade) watertown
Aug 24 2008 5:00P
WHITE LAKE INN WOODGATE
Aug 28 2008 9:00P
skiffs-blues in bay alexandria, New York
Aug 29 2008 7:00P
uncle sams boat tour alex bay
Aug 31 2008 12:00P
blues in the bay-main stage alexandria bay, New York
Sep 1 2008 12:00P
blues in bay-all star jam hosts a-bay, New York
Sep 7 2008 12:00P
iron block outdoor show pig roast--DBBB-STRING OF PEARLS ADAMS
Sep 12 2008 8:00P
time warp tavern watertown
Sep 27 2008 5:00P
time warp tavern-disabled veterans benefit-3 bands watertown, New York
Oct 3 2008 8:00P
rock n blues fest-adams center adams
Oct 11 2008 7:00P
mullins blues and BBQ govenour
Oct 12 2008 3:00P
iron block columbus day blues bash adams
Jun 27 2009 3:00P
bike week alexandria bay
Jul 5 2009 4:00P
massena springs blues bash massena
author: Bob Nadeau
I have been in that living room and attended many gigs throughtout central and northern New York many times over the past 8 years or so with Mr. Cloutier cranking on those guitars. Had the pleasure of recording Barroom Blues and Blue Collar Blues when Mark was with the Dirty Pool Blues Band. Theses are no BS, stright from the floor, and Mark at his live best!! He's moved on now and what you're hearing is just the early rumblings of Mount Cloutier ready to erupt. I have always known he has had 15 to 20 years of new music just waiting to burst out and now he can let it all loose. During the cabin sessions, we could expect 2-3 new Cloutier tunes each session that few had heard before. From Original style Blues to Hendrix/SRV and beyond with a sprinkle of country style every so often. I want to thank all Mark's friends, Collaborators and fans who are helping to get his talent and writing out there. But don't be fooled.....his bag also contains some Cloutier vocals but that's a secret. Love ya Bro and Congratulations!!!!!!
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