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Terry kitchens songs are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. A talented writer. -Richard Middleton, Victory Review Terry Kitchen picks up where Elvis Costello and Tom Waits merge and leave off. -Vance Gilbert blues for cain & abel, the fifth and finest CD from Boston contemporary folk singer/songwriter Terry Kitchen, is a challenging and rewarding look at our constant struggle between doubt and faith. The songs are portraits of people in conflict between rebellion and acceptance, love and anger, joy and loss, from the most intimate circumstance (Come Back to Me, The Year of Living Lonely) to the most universal (Noah & the Selfish Son, Heimaey, about a town in Iceland that survives a volcano). Like 1997s blanket (which was heard on over 100 folk radio programs and voted #21 top folk album of that year in Folk Digests annual poll), blues for cain & abel features a sound built around Terrys inviting vocals and supple acoustic guitar playing and augmented by some of New Englands finest studio musicians including Alizon Lissance (Lovedogs; keyboards), Norm Zocher & Brice Buchanan (lead & slide guitars), Seth Connelly (fretless bass), Larry Finn (drums), Eric Gerber (mandolin), Billy Novick (penny whistle), Michael Holland & Phyllis Capanna (vocals).