Mark Bialczak from the Syracuse Post Standard::::"
"Guitarist Mark Cloutier can play it fast and hot or slow and tense.
Singer John Hart can add the grit or spread the honey.
Bassist Bill Satterly and drummer Garnett Grimm Sr. keep it real.
Cloutier's guitar work will send shivers down your spine as Hart sings, "Sometimes it feels like a black cat crossed my path. Sometimes it feels like I got a target on my back.""
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Vincent Zumel from La Hora Del Blues:::::
an exciting, joyful and lively blues band.. Mark Cloutier, who has a terrific flaming sound and technique, full of rocky passionate riffs!!!
Nigel Potter.....On Mark's "Blues For the Cosmo's" track
"Yeah this is Jimi land. In so much as it could be something Jimi would have done live in one of his live off the floor pieces. The thing about making a statement like that is it has to sink. What is actualy being said is it could well be some undiscovered Jimi track. IMHO,no one will ever get close to Jimmy for the fire in his playing,but for sure,and I've heard many try,you get the closest to that zone he had. All of which is not to say this is a Jimi clone. No indeed. There are certain things you do,that only you do and Jimi would have been unlikely to do. If it had been 10 minutes long and posted on a bootleg forum as a bootleg Jimi track,I can't see many would have doubted it. So that mate,from my little corner is about the highest praise I can ever give to another guitarist." Classic. Nigel "
The "Blues Stalker"-Sun Coast Blues Society
The four piece Double Barrel Blues Band based out of Syracuse, New York, has been on my radar for some time now. Their new release “Bad Bad Feeling” is receiving considerable airplay all over Europe!!
Peter Blewzzman Lauro-Mary 4 Music::::
The Double Barrel Blues Band bills themselves as an intense, exciting, rocking blues band that plays "In Your Face Blues". If that's true, then I'm sure to have a good, good feeling about "Bad, Bad Feeling" - the second release from this Syracuse, NY based band.
Members of Double Barrel include: Mark Cloutier on Lead Guitar & Vocals, John Hart on Vocals & Slide Guitar, Bill Satterly on Bass, and Garnett Grimm on Drums. The disc contains ten tracks of which six are band originals.
Everyone's partying hard on the opening track, that ya gotta wonder if the guys aren't just singing about it but sucking on some of that "Wine, Wine, Wine", as well. This is an all out jam on which the band immediately lives up to their self description. This one rocks! It's highlighted by intense rhythm from Bill and Garnett and lots of smokin' guitar leads by Mark. Real good stuff.
Things slow down a bit on the title track, an original called "Bad, Bad, Feeling". This is a real blues burner that has everyone in a mellow groove behind lots of smoking blues guitar highlights from Mark.
Somewhere between the opening track and here, the guys must have switched over to the hard stuff, because they now have the "Whiskey Blues". It's stuff like this that gives the Double Barrel Blues Band the right to say they're blues is in your face. It doesn't get any more straight up than this. John's vocals and Mark's guitar work on this track are what the blues is all about. Discs best, right here.
The name of this track - "B Flat Bone Boogie" - pretty much describes it. It's a smokin' instrumental that will have you boogieing down to your bones. If you can sit still through this one, then you gotta be in a body cast.
"Tin Pan Alley" is another slow and low down blues burner.....the kind of stuff I can listen to all night long. Although he's pretty hot on all tracks, this one may feature some of Mark's best guitar work. In addition to getting down in the alley on vocals, this one has John sounding very impressive on slide guitar as well.
Other tracks on "Bad, Bad Feeling" include: "Matchbox", "Voodoo Thing", "Restless One", "If You Find I'm Gone" and "Flipping And Flapping".
This is quite an impressive effort by the Double Barrel Blues Band, and I've got to admit that they've certainly lived up to their reputation. "Bad, Bad Feeling" was exciting, rocking and in your face kinda blues. Great work guys!"
Robert Silverstein- Music Web Express 3000 Magazine::
Based in Upstate New York, in the Syracuse region, guitarist Mark Cloutier is doing a great job releasing a barrage of CDs on his Blues Lion Records label. Much of Mark’s 2009 CD Attitude With Gratitude is instrumental in nature and with that unique element front and center, his guitar work sounds also greatly inspired by rock legends like Hendrix, Jimmy Vaughan, early Buddy Guy and T-Bone Walker. Likewise, much the same could be said about Mark’s 2008 CD with his group Stratattack, entitled Blues In My House. Featuring solid support from an adept rhythm section, Cloutier’s guitar takes on a number of sonic guises on different tracks. For instance, track 8 on Attitude With Gratitude, “There’s A Place”—a great atmospheric instrumental that mixes rock and jazzy styles to great effect—is one of Cloutier’s finest and most memorable tracks. One look at Cloutier’s web site and you can really see a guitarist who is quite prolific, with each of his CD's being strongly recommended to both blues and rock fans, as well as guitar instrumental fans. www.DoubleBarrelBluesBand.com
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Concerts on the Waterfront
Presented by the Sackets Harbor Historical Society every summer Sunday afternoon
at the Battlefield State Park in Sackets Harbor
Note - For 26 years, the Sackets Harbor Historical Society has presented the Concerts on the Waterfront series in Sackets Harbor. In honor of the
thousands who have attended over the years, we have brought back audience favorites this year, plus new groups that are sure to become favorites,
Musicians Mark Cloutier (lead guitar and vocals), John Hart (vocalist and slide guitar), Garnett Grimm (drums) and Bill
Satterly (bass) have been together for 3 years, but each has a vibrant background in the blues and rock and roll scene. Mark, Bill
and Garnett previously played together with
vocals rounded out the blues sound they were searching for, and the DBBB was formed.
Critics remark on their versatility and virtuosity. Post Standard’s Mark Blalczak notes that John can “add the grit or spread the
honey” and Mark can play it “hot and fast” or “slow and easy”. When they’re hot, we get both barrels of anguished blues, hence
the name of the group. Peter “Bleuzeman” Lauro, in reviewing their latest CD Bad Bad Feeling, says “If you can sit through
this…you gotta be in a body cast.”
John is a former army officer who played in a rock band at many of his European assignments. Interestingly, in the past few
years, thanks to the webskills honed by Mark, Europe is enjoying the Syracuse blues sound offered by DBBB. Their excellent
website
Band members credit family and each other for their musical prowess. “We push each other’ observes Mark. “We challenge
each other and we practice daily. The day we stop practicing is the day we stop learning.”
They have opened for several national acts, like the Marshall Tucker Band, and the Fabulous T Birds, where Radio Jockey
Johnnie Keegan noted that “they stole the show”. At Blues Festivals throughout the state, from Adams Center’s Harley
Davidson fest to Lake George’s Blues Fest, they pack in the crowds. Whether it’s soulful blues or swinging blues, the DBBB
Dirty Pool, a blues band that toured in the 90’s. John’s harmonica, guitar andwww.doublebarrelbluesband.com; shares enthusiastic reviews from the Continent.
A testimony by Bri-an a killer musician from Ontario Canada--his likes are-- motorcycles/ guitar strings snappin/ amps smokin
kool amp tone,sounds a bit like my 57 Hagg with the single coil pickups amplifiing the molicules discharging from the pick your holding....lol. love it. yes, the study of the o'ld skool artists are paying off in huge dividens.
Over the years that i have been listening to you both "live at the gigs in NY" and on OMD's I bare witness to the evolution of a blue's guitar player who emerses themself totally in to thier craft.
...is there sub-gernres in blues?, why yes there is....ever hear of MarkC? he'll change your perspective.
Great display of character. Great ham-bonin!
Kerry Martin::
"And from that day on...the coffee shop was never the same, the poets and bards they all sounded so lame. The Lion had been there, they had all heard him roar, when he brings his guitar they all clamor for more. The beatniks and hippies they all were confused, cause never before had they heard beatnik blues..the style was smokey, the licks they were straight, now everyone hangs at the shop until late. They're waitin' and hopin', they wanna hear more, of Mark Cloutier and that Blues Lion roar. (finger snap snap snap...) I concure with Ed, crazy daddy-o. Kerry" 
A review of one of Mark's guitar instrumentals::
"Yeah this is Jimi land.
In so much as it could be something Jimi would have done live in one of his live off the floor pieces.
The thing about making a statement like that is it has to sink.
What is actualy being said is it could well be some undiscovered Jimi track.
IMHO,no one will ever get close to Jimmy for the fire in his playing,but for sure,and I've heard many try,you get the closest to that zone he had.
All of which is not to say this is a Jimi clone.
No indeed.
There are certain things you do,that only you do and Jimi would have been unlikely to do.
If it had been 10 minutes long and posted on a bootleg forum as a bootleg Jimi track,I can't see many would have doubted it.
So that mate,from my little corner is about the highest praise I can ever give to another guitarist.
Classic.'
Nigel Potter
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