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Indian Hunters Return is out now! From Cary's soon to be released project, Innocent Allies!

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Indian Hunters Return

Cary Morin

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Morin released the latest single from Innocent Allies, “Indian Hunters Return,” which was written with his son, Eli. “My wife and I were on tour in the Southern U.S. in January 2022. We stopped in Ohio to visit family. We flew our son Eli to join us for a few days,” remembers Morin. “After describing this project to Eli, I invited him to write a

Morin released the latest single from Innocent Allies, “Indian Hunters Return,” which was written with his son, Eli. “My wife and I were on tour in the Southern U.S. in January 2022. We stopped in Ohio to visit family. We flew our son Eli to join us for a few days,” remembers Morin. “After describing this project to Eli, I invited him to write a song with me. I told him about my memory of a Charlie print that hung in my grandfather’s house for as long as I could remember.”

The painting, dubbed Indian Hunters Return by Russell when he finished it in 1900, depicts an image of a camp with several teepees and hunters returning from the hunt with food. “In that moment, you can see Charlie’s treatment of the sky, accented by the remaining snow on the ground,” says Morin. “There’s some commotion around the hunters’ return. The landscape is a calm but cold Montana winter day, with the familiar bare Cottonwood trees and a cloudy sky. The painting itself suggests the respect given to an elder tribal member offering the elder the opportunity to eat first before the others.”

“After viewing the image, we wrote down what we thought might have happened to the characters just before the action in the scene depicted in the painting,” says Morin, of whose recollection of this painting in his grandfather’s house is a vital childhood memory. “The story in the song speaks to things the hunters encountered on their hunt, including a man who was mourning the loss of his son. One could assume that it was in battle that he died. The hunters could hear the man singing on a hilltop in the distance and decided to leave him to his mourning.”

Musicians: Cary Morin - Acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals Eric Adcock - Piano Celeste Di Iorio - Background vocals Nic Clark - Harmonica

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2023 Holiday Tunes by Cary!

As a guitar player, the first thing that struck me about Cary’s music is the originality and virtuosity in his guitar playing. Listening to his tracks I find that his singing and songwriting show the same characteristic originality and skill. He’s unique and very valuable. -David Bromberg

Here's what folks are saying about Cary's Music:

"...what is amazing to me is Cary's incredible natural talent. I studied classical guitar for many years and its focus on finger style but am just astounded by the style and execution Cary brings into his music. And on top of that, that great voice and heartfelt lyric presentation."  -D. Ussery, Fort Collins, CO, October 2020


"Cary Morin is a unique and brilliant guitar player, songwriter and singer,” says renowned folk musician David Bromberg, extolling the virtues of one of his favorite players. “It’s hard to pick out what he does best. As a guitar player, I have huge respect for Cary’s style and technique on the guitar. If you haven’t heard him yet, you should. Try to remember that it’s only one guitar.” Hearing the ease with which he fingerpicks on his latest album, Cradle to the Grave, it’s hard to believe that he’s only been playing solo for about seven years — and, as Bromberg says, that it’s all just one person..." - Dan Forte for Taylor Wood & Steel Magazine, June 2018

"...A superb fingerstyle guitarist, Morin is a troubadour of the first order...The guitar playing on this album is elegant, and simple in it's beauty. And while what he is doing might be complex, he seems to toss it off effortlessly, as if anyone could play this well..." - Joe McSpadden, No Depression

"He’s a fantastic fingerstyle guitarist— nimble, yet very soulful. Even when he does show off his skills, as in the ragtime-like blues “Laid Back,” he does so without overplaying. The sentiment expressed in the song always reigns...A delight from start to finish, keeps the blues alive."  -Tom Clarke, Tahoe OnStage, February 2017

"...Cary Morin has tapped directly into the roots of country blues. With his impeccable finger picking and occasional steel guitar playing and crusty, expressive vocals and song writing, Morin has developed a style that stands apart as true “Native Americana.”  Morin’s deft blues picking and raw singing are reminiscent of Corey Harris’s early recordings. - Bill Wilcox, Twangville