[citation needed] In 1988 he joined the influential and innovative band Blowzabella (which also featured Nigel Eaton, with whom Cutting has since collaborated).

Their repertoire, blending English traditional music with that of central France and Eastern Europe, had a great influence on Cutting.

[6][4] Wood & Cutting, together with Karen Tweed and Ian Carr, make up the Two Duos Quartet, who have made one album, Half as happy as we.

Tweed & Cutting have also worked as a duo; they have made one album together and contributed to a live CD, Across the Waters, recorded at Cork University in 1994.

Cutting works regularly as a session musician, with artists as diverse as Sting, June Tabor and Chumbawamba.

Their debut CD Murmurs was well received with The Telegraph naming it one of the best folk albums of 2015, describing them as "three of Britain’s finest musicians and interpreters of songs and tunes, each an acknowledged virtuoso in their own right".