About the Band

Described as “one of the best acoustic pickers on the scene today,” Cary Morin brings together the great musical traditions of America like no other. With deft fingerstyle guitar and vocals that alternately convey melodic elation and gritty world-weariness, Morin crafts an inimitable style often characterized as roots-infused Native Americana with hints of bluegrass, folk, blues, and rock. He has performed at renowned venues across the globe, including the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center, and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades. David Bromberg remarks, "Cary Morin is a unique and brilliant guitar player, songwriter and singer. As a guitar player, I have huge respect for Cary’s style and technique…. If you haven’t heard him yet, you should. Try to remember that it’s only one guitar.” Music critic Bill Hurley writes, “His guitar skill is jaw-dropping, his voice is warm, worn of world experience, and his songwriting allows both of those things to flourish and captivate anyone in the room.”

A tribute to the American South, Morin’s seventh solo release, Dockside Saints, was produced and engineered by multi-Grammy winner Tony Daigle at the renowned Dockside Studio. The album is an expansive musical vision, merging Cary’s celebrated style of Americana with the spirit and sounds of Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music. Fueled by a band of Lafayette-area heavyweights, it jumps out of the gates with rocking New Orleans rhythms and then wades deep into lyrical ballads. Throughout, the album is punctuated with head-bobbing southern grooves. Its sound ranges from exuberant to subtle, while exploring themes of love, faith, hardship, and heritage. Cary comments, “This collection of songs represents our annual migration, just as my ancestors migrated from this region to the Western Plains so many centuries ago, sharing culture through music and more along the way. It is the product of our imagination of what was, and what has become our love of the sounds of the South.” 

Adding to his many awards, in 2019, Cary Morin took home an Indigenous Music Award for Best Blues CD for the second time. The same year, he also was named Telluride Blues and Brews Blues Champion and won a Telly bronze award for his music video "When I Rise.” In 2018, he won an Independent Music Award for Best Blues CD, an honorable mention in the 2018 International Songwriting Competition, and a Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship. In 2017, he won an Indigenous Music Award for Best Blues CD and a First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership fellowship. He also was nominated that year for Best Acoustic Blues Album by Blues Blast Magazine. Additional accolades include a nomination for the 2016 Best Blues CD in the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards, a nomination for the 2015 Indigenous Music Award for Best Folk Album, and a nomination for the 2014 Indigenous Music Award for Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year. In 2013 and 2014, he won the Colorado Blues Challenge Solo Championship. He has over 35,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, with over 3 million hits on a single song, as well as over 18,000 Facebook followers.

Cary has collaborated with, shared the stage with, or opened for numerous music legends, including Los Lobos, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, David Bromberg, Arlo Guthrie, Tony Trishka, Guy Davis, David Wilcox, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Spencer Bohren, Charlie Musslewhite, Brian Stoltz, the Subdudes, and Phil Cook, to mention a few.

As an internationally touring musician, Cary has performed in the US, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, and the UK. He has played renowned venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Paris Jazz Festival, Winter Park Jazz Festival, Folk Alliance International, River People Festival, Shakori Hills Festival, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Rochefort En Accords festival in France, Copenhagen Blues Festival, and many more. His music has reached millions on national TV in Japan, France, and the UK, as well as on national radio in the US (NPR’s Beale Street Caravan), UK (BBC’s Whose London), France (RFI), Switzerland, and Belgium. 

In 2011, “Ole Midlife Crisis,” a song Cary wrote and performed with the Pura Fé Trio, placed at number 17 on France’s iTunes blues chart. Additional credits include Tribe at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, and co-authorship of Turtle Island, a 50-member production that played two consecutive years to sold-out audiences in Northern Colorado. With the Red Willow Dancers, he was a guest of the internationally renowned Kodo Drummers, performing at their 1998 Spring Festival and additional dates in Japan. In 1989, he founded The Atoll, a rock-reggae-blues band that toured the US for over 13 years. 

In addition to his solo pursuits, Cary performs with his band Cary Morin & Ghost Dog, a high-energy roots rock band. He also collaborates with Will Kimbrough, Grayson Capps, and Corky Hughes in a group known as Rancho Deluxe.

Morin was born in Billings, Montana. Crow tribal member and son of an air force officer, he spent the bulk of his youth in Great Falls, where he cut his teeth picking guitar standards at neighborhood get-togethers. When not touring the US and Europe, he calls Northern Colorado home. 

For more information, visit CaryMorin.com, and follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. 

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Discography

change album image	Innocent Allies Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Big Sky Sun Goes Down Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Waiting and Mad Acoustic Blues Blues 3 Waiting for a Chinook Acoustic Blues Blues 4 Old Timers Poem Acoustic Blues Blues 5 Good Medicine Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Killing the Blues Acoustic Blues Blues 7 Indian Hunters Return Acoustic Blues Blues 8 Whiskey Before Breakfast Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Big Nose George's Outlaw Blues Acoustic Blues Blues 10 Fire Boat Acoustic Blues Blues 11 Bullhead Lodge Acoustic Blues Blues 12 Wally and Keeoma Acoustic Blues Blues 13 Where the Trails Cross the Big Divide Acoustic Blues Blues 14 Montana Sky Acoustic Blues Blues
change album image	Dockside Saints Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Nobody Gotta Know Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Exception to the Rule Acoustic Blues Blues 3 Prisoner Acoustic Blues Blues 4 Because He Told Me So Acoustic Blues Blues 5 Tonight Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Jamie Rae Acoustic Blues Blues 7 Bare Trees Acoustic Blues Blues 8 Valley of the Chiefs Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Chosen Road Acoustic Blues Blues 10 Cary's Groove Acoustic Blues Blues 11 Blue Delta Home Acoustic Blues Blues 12 Come the Rain Acoustic Blues Blues
change album image	When I Rise Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues, Folk Styles: Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Blues, Blues Rock, Folk Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 When I Rise Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Let Me Hear the Music Contemporary Blues Blues 3 Sometimes Acoustic Blues Blues 4 Dire Wolf Acoustic Blues Blues 5 My Memories of You Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Jug in the Water Blues Rock Blues 7 Devoted One Acoustic Blues Blues 8 Little Martha Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Lay Baby Lay Acoustic Blues Blues 10 Carmela Marie Blues Rock Blues 11 We Used to Be Folk Folk 12 Jug in the Water (Acoustic Version) Acoustic Blues Blues
change album image	Cradle to the Grave Details Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Cradle to the Grave Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Laid Back Acoustic Blues Blues 3 Dawn's Early Light Acoustic Blues Blues 4 Lay Baby Lay Acoustic Blues Blues 5 Mishawaka Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Mississippi Blues Acoustic Blues Blues 7 Ghost Dog Acoustic Blues Blues 8 Trust Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Back on the Train Acoustic Blues Blues 10 Nothing Compares 2 U Acoustic Blues Blues 11 Watch over Me Acoustic Blues Blues
change album image	Together Label: Self-Release Genres: Folk, Blues Styles: Alternative Folk, Acoustic Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Together Alternative Folk Folk 2 Sing It Louder Alternative Folk Folk 3 You Were There with Me Alternative Folk Folk 4 Idle No More Alternative Folk Folk 5 River Under the Snow Alternative Folk Folk 6 Share My Name Alternative Folk Folk 7 Prisoner Acoustic Blues Blues 8 We're Doing Fine Alternative Folk Folk 9 Nobody Loves You Alternative Folk Folk 10 Taylor's Moon Song Alternative Folk Folk
change album image	Tiny Town Details Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre When the Levee Breaks (feat. Jean Jacques Milteau) Acoustic Blues Blues 1 Angels and Devils Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Yellow Dog Blues Acoustic Blues Blues 3 Tiny Town Acoustic Blues Blues 4 When the Levee Breaks (feat. Jean Jacques Milteau) Acoustic Blues Blues 5 Broke Down Place Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Valley of the Chiefs Acoustic Blues Blues 7 Obstacles to Negotiate Acoustic Blues Blues 8 Me and My Broken Heart Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Endless Possibilities Acoustic Blues Blues 10 July Waltz Acoustic Blues Blues 11 Not Ever Again Acoustic Blues Blues 12 Yellow Bird Acoustic Blues Blues 13 Wrong Side of the Law (feat. Jean Jacques Milteau) Acoustic Blues Blues 14 July Waltz Reprise Acoustic Blues Blues
change album image	Streamline Details Label: Self-Release Genres: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues Songs on the Album Track # Song Title Style Genre 1 Here and Now Acoustic Blues Blues 2 Family Ties Acoustic Blues Blues 3 Tulsa Acoustic Blues Blues 4 Live a Little Acoustic Blues Blues 5 Between You and Me Acoustic Blues Blues 6 Tennessee Acoustic Blues Blues 7 Thunder Acoustic Blues Blues 8 To Love Somebody Acoustic Blues Blues 9 Tennessee Jed Acoustic Blues Blues 10 Elizabeth Acoustic Blues Blues 11 Wolfman's Brother Acoustic Blues Blues 12 Old Guitar Acoustic Blues Blues