"This kid can play!"

- B.B. King

"This is the blues with a mighty streak of rhythm...and boy is it a crowd pleaser"

- The Rocking Magpie: Music Magaize

"This band brings the A Game!"

- Americana Highways

"He never overplays his hand, and he uses taste, tone, and timing to season his heartfelt lyrics with the right amount of flavor."

- Jere Mendelsohn: Guitarist, Producer, and Recording Artist

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"Culkin is a natural story teller with a compelling voice and impressive electric guitar chops."

- Matthew Alexander: Producer and Recording Artist

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"It's an impressive collection that showcases his fine guitar playing and great voice..."

- Carl Verheyen: Guitarist for Supertramp and Legendary Session Musician

"Highly Recommended!"

Keys and Chords: Music Magazine

"If you Kyle Culkin Band playing in the Heartbreak Hotel, your spirits would be lifted in such a way you may even try to marry the barmaid!"

- The Rocking Magpie: Music Magazine

Kyle Culkin: Shotgun Ridge Album Review

By Michael Doherty's Music Log

"There are so many varieties of music today that I think there is something for everyone. I hope that people who listen to my records understand the importance of living the human experience. Life is short so embrace it all, the good and the bad. Without hard times, we can’t appreciate the good times, so I try to approach music with that same self-reflection and a little humor mixed in. Hopefully that concept is something the listener can connect with. I’ve never found anything that can convey the emotion of the human experience like music can."

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Kyle Culkin: Americana Shotgun
Q&A with songwriter/guitarist Kyle Culkin, American roots music that projects a truthful authenticity from hard learned lessons of life on the road

By Michael Limnios Blues Network

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A twenty year man at the coal-face of being a working musician; with only one previous solo release to his name; Kyle Culkin has been a ‘go to’ session man and touring geetar player for the great and the good (and no doubt the average too) with very little glory; apart from BB King saying “This kid can play!” but always paying the rent; so has that apprenticeship done him any good?
Hell yes it has!

REVIEW: A Little Ray of Rhythm and Blues Sunshine and a Bit of an Emotional Rollercoaster

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By The Rocking Magpie

Kyle Culkin’s critically acclaimed first album, My Americana, included a mix of blues, gospel, rock, country, and soul. Now, Kyle Culkin is going back to his rhythm and blues roots in his new album Pork Chops & Blues. But Culkin isn’t the only notable name featured on the eight-track album recorded at Cool Noise Records. Special guests include Jade MacRae, Carl Verheyen, Johnny Stachela, Jamieson Trotter, Marty Rifkin, Just Dave Bernal, Westin Byerly, and The Barrelhouse Horns. Pork Chops & Blues is Culkin’s musical journey down memory lane, full of life’s twists and turns and packed with emotion and adventure.

REVIEW: Kyle Culkin Takes A Musical Journey Down Memory Lane

By Alex Rae

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On the cover of Kyle Culkin’s latest album, My Americana, a seafoam green Fender Telecaster® lies in the sun against a giant, weather-beaten tree stump in a field of struggling flora, battling for space against the enroaching ground. In the background, an endless blue sky beckons with its promise of freedom and a horizon of endless possibilities. The photo is a powerful visual metaphor for the themes mined in 11 beautifully executed songs by this triple-threat guitarist/singer/songwriter. It takes a combination of fearlessness, passion, confidence, optimism, and hubris to take on the major responsibilities of a project of this magnitude (don’t ask me how I know). Kyle does it all with talent, taste, and passion.

REVIEW: Kyle Culkin “My Americana” Moves Effortlessly Through Idioms

By Jere Mendelsohn

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Q&A with songwriter/guitarist Kyle Culkin, American roots music that projects a truthful authenticity from hard learned lessons of life on the road

REVIEW: A Little Ray of Rhythm and Blues Sunshine and a Bit of an Emotional Rollercoaster

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