Raindogs Music Group

For Mark Cutler, making an album was a dream too long deferred. He had been primed since the early 1980s, when he began weaving excellent rock 'n' roll in a small domain--Rhode Island--hoping that the bigger world outside would take notice and give him his chance. Finally, last year, the chance arrived.

For Mark Cutler, making an album was a dream too long deferred. He had been primed since the early 1980s, when he began weaving excellent rock 'n' roll in a small domain--Rhode Island--hoping that the bigger world outside would take notice and give him his chance. Finally, last year, the chance arrived.

Band: Raindogs Personnel: Johnny Cunningham, fiddle, mandolin; Mark Cutler, vocals, guitar; Darren Hill, bass; Jimmy Reilly, drums; Emerson Torrey, guitar, vocals. History: The Boston-based Raindogs are a stylistic and geographic mixed breed. Irishman Reilly played in the Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers, before hooking up with Hill in the New Orleans group Red Rockers. Relocated to Boston, Hill and Reilly set out to start a new band that would incorporate Celtic and Cajun folk influences.

Band: Raindogs Personnel: Johnny Cunningham, fiddle, mandolin; Mark Cutler, vocals, guitar; Darren Hill, bass; Jimmy Reilly, drums; Emerson Torrey, guitar, vocals. History: The Boston-based Raindogs are a stylistic and geographic mixed breed. Irishman Reilly played in the Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers, before hooking up with Hill in the New Orleans group Red Rockers. Relocated to Boston, Hill and Reilly set out to start a new band that would incorporate Celtic and Cajun folk influences.