Luther Wright & The Wrongs

from Kingston Ontario

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Luther Wright & The Wrongs

Luther Wright has been writing, performing and producing music for 25 good years now. After touring with and recording two albums as lead guitarist for 90s pop-rockers, Weeping Tile, he and his best buds formed the acclaimed honky tonk outfit, Luther Wright & the Wrongs. They’ve made six albums of original music plus “Rebuild the Wall”, their amazeballs cover of the Pink Floyd classic The Wall.

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Luther Wright has been writing, recording and performing music for over 20 years now. He started out in a band with his talented songwriter brother Geordie in the garage/punk, vigilante vegetarian outfit The Mugworts who honed their chops while traveling in Mexico and playing to gringos and locals alike. In 1994 he joined up with his friends Mary and Sarah Harmer to play lead guitar in the Canadian, pop-rock band, Weeping Tile (WEA/Atlantic).

"Luther's humour and wit remains central to his songwriting, but this time around the frenetic energy of his vocal performance style pauses at times, letting his fans in a bit deeper, and likely to convert the newbies that will cross this musical veteran."
~ Sheena Turcotte, The Lowdown

It was during the next 5 years of full-on touring and recording with that band that Luther, Weeping Tile drummer Cam Giroux and his roots compadres Sean Kelly and Dan Curtis formed the now-renowned, country/punkgrass road daemons, Luther Wright & The Wrongs. Known on one hand for their brilliantly executed, country/bluegrass reworking of Pink Floyd's classic The Wall, Luther and the band have also recorded and released five all-original albums, Hurtin' For Certain (1997), Rogers Waltz (1999), the valentine gone awry, Guitar Pickin' Martyrs (2003), Instrumentality(2005), Man of Your Dreams (2008). Also to boot, they made two cds of original children's music under the guise of Butterfingers.

"The deft use of guitar, pedal steel, organs and keys throughout Hearts and Lonely Hunters makes it a nicely textured, happy mess of an album about life, love, being broke and making music anyway."
~ Sarah Greene, Exclaim Magazine

Luther Wright poses for a press. photo on a chair near a table with topped by French bulldog, beneath several shelves of ephemera.

Luther Wright poses for a press. photo on a chair near a table with topped by French bulldog, beneath several shelves of ephemera.

From its release internationally in 2001, Rebuild the Wall (Universal/Backporch), opened up doors for 'the Wrongs to play over 500 shows of old-country, inspired music across the continent. Luther's music is used in the CTV television show, "Robson Arms", and his song "Tumbler Ridge" is part of the soundtrack in Ron Mann's documentary film about Woody Harrleson entitled, "Go Further". At the request of the Goodman family Luther contributed a version of "The City Of New Orleans", to a wonderful album that pays tribute to folk legend Steve Goodman.

"He occupies a distinct space thanks to off-kilter phrasing and a refusal to be sonically restricted. At times his style can border on annoying, but when he hits his marks, Wright (with his Wrongs) pulls off some truly magical Canadiana."
~ Matt Williams, Now Magazine

Their new album "Hearts and Lonely Hunters" album was produced by Chris Brown (Bourbon Tabernacle Choir/Chris Brown & Kate Femner) and is available in the store on the site. "Luther Wright and Hugh Christopher Brown reignited a decades long musical relationship on tour in the Yukon and Alaska. The pair had first met touring Canada while Wright was on the road with Weeping Tile; the critically acclaimed band he was in with Sarah Harmer. Their orbits would cross many times between New York City and the Canadian Highways and Brown is a regular feature on Luther's albums, including the cult classic 'Rebuild the Wall', hailed by audiences and Roger Waters alike. Now, with 6 albums of well-crafted original alt-country music under their belts, the upcoming album, 'Hearts and Lonely Hunters', takes Luther and the band in a slightly different direction in no small part due to the longstanding collaboration with producer Brown. Luther's country influence is very much in full effect, this time with lush string arrangements, keys and exquisite backing vocals by Sarah Harmer. His humor and wit are here matched equally with heartfelt crooning; his punk passion shining through as always. Hearts and Lonely Hunters also features appearances by the legendary Holmes Brothers and two of New York City's rhythm heavyweights, Tony Scherr and Anton Fier." /Sheena Turcott/The Lowdown.

Country/Bluegrass/Rockabilly Folk/Celtic/Latin/World

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