NASHVILLE, TN – Love hurts, but Mary Kutter isn’t interested in nursing the bruise. With “Damn I Love You,” out today via BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville, Kutter turns reckless devotion into a full-contact sport, delivering a hard-charging confession about loving someone past the point of reason. Written by Kutter, Brian Alexander, Tom Pino and Paul Wrock, and produced by Kurt Allison and Tully Kennedy, the track hints at what’s next from the Kentucky-raised singer-songwriter. Listen HERE and watch the official music video HERE.
Built on roaring guitars and Kutter’s commanding vocal, “Damn I Love You” pushes country storytelling straight into rock territory. Its lyrics measure devotion in broken bones and bad decisions, capturing the kind of all-consuming love that makes self-preservation feel beside the point. The harder it hits, the deeper Kutter digs in.
The song nearly sounded very different. Kutter originally wrote “Damn I Love You” as a slow 6/8 ballad before scrapping everything but the title. The problem wasn’t the song. It was that something this irrational had no business behaving itself.
“It started out real sad and real pretty, but that just wasn’t what the feeling sounded like to me,” says Kutter. “Loving somebody that hard, especially when you know they might not do the same for you, isn’t always pretty. It can feel like a bar fight in your chest. Once I realized that, I knew we needed to crank it up.”
Following the darkly cinematic “Bed of Roses,” “Damn I Love You” reveals another side of the world Kutter is building, where country storytelling collides with rock-leaning intensity and emotions rarely arrive clean or uncomplicated. Together, the songs begin to leave breadcrumbs toward a forthcoming full-length project for Kutter.
For Kutter, those contradictions are often where the story gets interesting. Raised in the backwoods of Kentucky, she has built her songwriting around characters and experiences that live somewhere between right and wrong, strength and vulnerability, love and self-preservation. “Damn I Love You” doesn’t try to resolve any of it. It finds the thrill in losing all good sense.
About Mary Kutter:Kentucky raised and Nashville based, Mary Kutter writes songs that live in the gray area, blurring genre lines and creative narratives. Drawing from country storytelling and rock-leaning intensity, her music favors sharp images over easy answers. As both a songwriter and recording artist, Kutter gravitates toward characters on the edge, flawed, resilient and unapologetically human. Before stepping fully into her own voice as an artist, she built a reputation as a songwriter willing to go where others would not, with her work appearing on major-label releases and charting records by Bailey Zimmerman, Nate Smith and Zach John King. Praised by The Tennessean as a “natural-born storyteller” who isn’t afraid of the big topics, Kutter has also earned early attention from PEOPLE, MusicRow and Country Swag for her distinctive voice, sharp songwriting and fearless approach to storytelling. In 2026, Kutter signed with BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville and introduced this next chapter with the darkly cinematic “Bed of Roses,” a sharp-edged murder ballad steeped in classic country storytelling and Southern noir. Now, she turns up the volume with the hard-hitting “Damn I Love You,” with more still to come.
