A Boston based band lead by Mark Cutler but the rhythm section came from The Red Rockers, The Raindogs took their name from a Tom Waits album. Secret weapon was fiddler Johnny Cunningham who bought a Galactic feel to Cutler's Tom Petty/Rolling Stones/Del Fregos type of music. They may have been ahead of their time for their type of alt rock preceded The Counting Crows by about three years.
Their albums for Atco went straight to the bargain bins soon after their release but they always had the best producers available: Peter Henderson (Supertramp, Rush) produced their first Lost Souls and Don Gehman (Mellencamp, later Hootie And The Blowfish) for Border Drive In Theater which became one of my favorite albums of 1991 due to the title alone. Some Fun actually got played on the FM station for a time and Iggy Pop gave the bizarre introduction of Dance Of The Freaks. But as fate would have it, Atco Records folded up shop and never did give the proper promotion for both of The Raindogs albums. They would break up, and Mark Cutler would go on to a solo career. Cunningham died in 2003.
Albums:
Lost Souls (Atco 1989) B+
Border Drive In Theater (Atco 1991) B+
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