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Cutaway Crossing

If you don’t have passion...you’ve got nothing!

About Me

Cutaway Crossing is five Midwestern guys who have an incredible passion for music. We're just having a ton of fun making and playing great music; and that's the only reason we do what we do. If you don't have passion - you've got nothing!
Loosely formed in 2005, the group performed private functions and parties around the Kansas City area under various names until they decided to record their debut CD in March / April 2007.
Cutaway Crossing begins....
The name Cutaway Crossing represents the origins and the essence of our band. All of our tunes are developed on acoustic guitars - the majority being cutaways. Also, playing together is our reason for "cutting away" from what we normally do day in, and day out. Our music is really a "crossing" of a number of influences, genres, textures, and years of very different experiences.
Cutaway Crossing's debut album "This Exit" was completed March 2008 and has eleven original toe-tappin' tracks from the band... I Believe, Every Day, I Need This, Knock Me Down, Texas Way, Welcome Back to Tennessee, Connect, Don't Need to Talk About It, Luckenbach Today, Bumpkin's Gotta Party Down, Just Like I'm Supposed To.
The guys are having a ball right now gigging, promoting their new CD and sharing their own version of Alt-County / Red-Dirt music.
Thanks for stopping by and we hope you like what you hear!
Cutaway Crossing is....
Brad "Woody" Bendle -
formerly with ATOMIC WOOD, & THE PC ROGUES
Trevor Howard -
formerly with SMOOTH SAILIN', BUNCH OF DUDES, & BAND PRACTICE
Brian Hall -
formerly with THE BRADY's, THE DOLLY LLAMAS, & THE TRICYCLE THIEVES
Kevin Decker -
Formerly with KID FLASH, RUNN21
Brad Burgess -
also with HARVEST MOON, and formerly with AUDIO DETOUR
View Cutaway Crossing's EPK

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Music:

Member Since: 3/2/2007
Band Website: CutawayCrossing.com
Band Members: Brad "Woody" Bendle
Vocals & Acoustic Guitars

Trevor Howard
Lead Guitar & Back Vocals

Brian Hall
Acoustic Guitars, Drums & Vocals

Kevin Decker
Bass & Vocals

Brad Burgess
Drums, Back Vocals
Influences: Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, James McMurtry, Willie, Stevie Ray, Lyle Lovett, The Old 97s, Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, John Anderson, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffet, Goo Goo Dolls, Pete Yorn, Steve Miller Band, The Samples, The Replacements, The Gourds, Flaming Lips, ....so many many more....
Sounds Like: A driving mixture of acoustic-based Alt-Country....

This is our own version of Red-Dirt music with a whole lotta edge!

Think about combining Son Volt, James McMurtry, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty and a little dash of Santana for some slow sizzle....

Red-Dirt baby....just the way we like it!
Record Label: Cutaway Crossing
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Free MP3 Download "Texas Way"

Yeah... What the heck...we thought we'd give it a shot!  We're posting "Texas Way" for free downloads for a short period of time.  We're anxious to learn what this does....and, we're anxiou...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:39:00 PST

ROCK CHALK BABY!

What a Final 4 so far!Man...was that a fun game last night or what?!OK...we’re a pretty diverse lot here at Cutaway Crossing. We have representation from:University of KANSASKANSAS STATE UNIVER...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:31:00 PST

CONNECT - FINAL MIX NOW AVAILABLE

Hey there Cutaway Crossing friends and family!The first final mix tune from Cutaway Crossing's March 2008 debut CD "THIS EXIT" has been finally posted!CONNECT is a fabulous driving tune that was actua...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:14:00 PST

Good enough...never good enough!

Yeah....we know.... this crazy thing was supposed to be done....like....six months ago!Well, so here is where we are...We are officially in final edits & mix on all of our tunes!As we listened to our ...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:43:00 PST

9 out of 11 tunes in final mix

Whew!Good things come to those who have too many other things to do at the same time...? Huh???? Well....something like that anyway.We're in the final mix stage for 9 of our 11 tunes. We still have...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:28:00 PST

Fiddle Work Underway

Hey there y'all! Yeah..... we know this project is taking a little longer than anticipated, but believe us...its going to be well worth the wait. We wrapped all of the back vocals last week and are cu...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:59:00 PST

Debut Album - In the home stretch!

CUTAWAY CROSSING  - DEBUT ALBUM "THIS EXIT" There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel now and it isn't a train coming straight at us! We're in the preliminary mix phase of our disc...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:21:00 PST

Bass tracks are done!

Hey there y'all! We see light at the end of this tunnel and we're pretty sure its not a train heading at us!  We're definitely on track to have this project wrapped up by the end of Septembe...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:16:00 PST

The drums are finally done!

OK all!  We finally got the drum tracks done - its all down hill from here!  After five months of delays, brother Brian stepped up and laid down some terrific driving drum takes!  I don...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:58:00 PST

Very very very good!

You know....sometimes it's just good for the soul to take a break from your own stuff and jam out with someone else's tunes!  We had a great session tonight and we went the range... Way...
Posted by Cutaway Crossing on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:13:00 PST