Andrew Luttrell Bio

More recently, Andrew has broadened his musical horizons into many different directions performing solo acoustically, in the acoustic trio of "Luttrell, Noon and Wenger" with fellow Baltimore-area artists Skip Noon & John Wenger, and in his Baltimore-based electric rock-n-roll power trio with drummer Craig Carmen & bassist Kevin Bailey known as "EchoSeven". In addition, he has received accolades for his songwriting from the International Songwriting Competition in 2006, won the Baltimore Emergenza Acoustic Songwriter Competition in 2007, and received a celebrated review in "Baltimore Magazine" for songs on his last CD release. In 2009 he joined another electric rock project: the Grateful Dead tribute band "Shakedown Suite". Original songs such as "Timeless Drifter", "Patapsco", and "2000 Child" (to name a few) will enter CMR set lists on a fairly regular basis when you see them perform, not to mention a catalog of hundreds of cover songs floating around in his head at any given moment. Andrew, known as Andy by his friends, is the Heartbeat of The Coal Mountain Ramblers. He could best be characterized as a well-spring of boundless energy with a passion for music that becomes obvious to anyone in the room the moment he starts to perform. At times it seems that Andy's mind is a computer that can instantly recall a myriad of long-forgotten songs and make them sound as if they were rehearsed for weeks before being played, out of nowhere in a complete seat-of-the-pants style, in front of a live audience. The voice, the guitar, the mandolin, the harmonica and a deep knowledge of the outer limits of the roots of musical improvisation are all tools that Andy can, and does, draw on in an instant to weave songs into a spellbinding journey through the history of music from its origins right up until the exact moment he is performing it. Solo, in bands, acoustic, electric, it doesn't matter. Andrew Luttrell is the embodiment of "Live Music". But really, we are all friends here. So, if you meet him, feel free to call him Andy… or Scooter,… or Arlo Seeger,… or the Critter,… or...

-M. Calhoun

Long before there was a "Coal Mountain Ramblers" there was "The Honey Mustard Memory Lapse" which started in 2001 and consisted of Andrew Luttrell and his close friend / CMR co-founder Mark Calhoun billing themselves as "A two-man acoustic jam band". Sound ostentatious? Then you never heard The Honey Mustard Memory Lapse. But Andrews musical journey began long before that when he started playing classical piano at the age of five. In the early to mid 1990's, he was partnered with Johny Edelstein in the Baltimore-based acoustic duo known as "Missing Dog Head" who were regulars in numerous clubs and coffee shops in the downtown Baltimore area.