The Suffolk Presents Blues Guitarist & Singer Songwriter ALBERT CUMMINGS

Riverhead NY

18 May, 2022

12:29 PM

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The Suffolk presents Blues guitarist and singer/songwriter ALBERT CUMMINGS on Sunday, July 17 at 7:00PM. Tickets range $25 – $35, plus applicable fees. Tickets are available online at SuffolkTheater.com. The Suffolk is excited to present an artist like Albert Cummings who has quickly risen to such great heights in the blues rock genre; he will be something new and exciting to introduce audiences to. Albert Cummings burst onto the Blues Rock scene in the early 2000's and has kept growing over a course of endless tours and nine albums, right up to today with the release of his newest album "TEN". In the trajectory of watching great musicians develop, there is no set timetable. Some appear full-blown right from the start, and others can take a whole career to get to that elevated place. Today, it's an irrevocable truth that this musician has made his full-on breakthrough. From his first album, the burgeoning blues world of the 2000's opened its doors for AlbertCummings. He recorded several albums for Blind Pig Records, and on 2012's "NO REGRETS" the guitarist extended the boundaries outside the blues world to include country and rock influences like he really hadn't before. It was obvious that the musician did not want to limit himself in any way, and saw a wider possibility for where his music could go. With its release on Cummings’ own indie label imprint, Ivy Music, "TEN" is a full realization of that possibility. One of the most striking things on "TEN" is the songs themselves. Written by Cummings, the 13 tracks feel like a compelling and extremely emotional summation of what the artist has seen and done. The evocative way the lyrics capture Cummings' life and his early days in music captures with exquisite detail how someone in his world went on to make such a strong impact on modern blues and beyond. When Albert Cummings started making plans for the sessions that would become his newest album "TEN", his first sign that this would be a turning point for him was when he connected with producer Chuck Ainlay. With Ainlay's credits working with Mark Knopfler, both solo and with Dire Straits, and George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Emmylou Harris and many others, it was immediately obvious that this new album would be one for the ages. Cummings knew a new vista for his music was right in front of him. "When you walk into a room with a producer like this, it feels like there is a whole new world of possibilities ready to open up," he says, "and I felt like things were really turning in an exciting new direction."