“ Imaginary Tomato (from Drifting To The Right) manages to blend country, several forms of rock, political commentary, and plant-based humor all into a standard length tune. This casserole-like blend gives the tune enough staying power for several interesting listens” - Zachary Larson

— Radio Airplay.com

“'Drifting to the Right', it’s a nine-tracker, spanning just a bit over the 30-minute mark but containing music so humbly delivered and so delicately crafted, that you would probably feel it as one long piece and not a collection of separate tracks. ”

— Drooble Blog, January 2022

“Gutierrez-May's biggest strength throughout this album is that ability to look beyond the flaring rage and into people's underlying pain. That's a rare gift in this world, and it's even more striking when someone can do it without capitulating to the cultural forces that profit from stoking that sort of rage” - Victor Infante

— Worcester Magazine

Drifting To The Right

The new album is now available via Apple, Tidal, Pandora and other streaming services  featuring 11 different artists! Produced by Stephen Martin, sound engineering by Joe Clapp at Ultrasound Studios. Album outtakes featured in music player below, Cover art by Ashley Mauzy.

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Michael Gutierrez-May is a singer-songwriter who is focusing on original songwriting, songwriting collaborations and occasional live performances. He has been involved in folk and acoustic music for the past 35 years as a coffeehouse manager, concert organizer and now as a songwriter and performer.

The new album, Drifting To The Right was released in  December, 2021. Produced by Stephen B. Martin and recorded by Joe Clapp at Ultrasound Studios , the album features 11 different artists from the South Shore of Boston and from Central Mass (Worcester) area. Michael has one previous studio album, Firefly In A Jar of Emotion (2017), one studio EP, Fifty Miles Away (2011) and one digital album of live recorded performances, Carrots, Geese and the Dead Leprechaun (2012). All are available via streaming services (Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon Music) and on Bandcamp.

Over the past 12 years, Michael has participated in the annual February Album Writing Month (FAWM) online organized by Burr Settles. Many of the songs on this new album started their life as FAWM songs. For the past four years, he has also been part of a songwriting group, the Quiet Corner Songwriters Meetup organized by Kala Farnham (Connecticut State Troubador, 2022) and all of the Drifting songs were presented there, some for the first time. Michael  works as a psychotherapist by day. He currently lives in Uxbridge, MA with his partner Diane Wood. 

 Michael Gutierrez-May

Mikegtz22@aol.com, 

508-415-5096

 

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