The Mudlands String Band debut album
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Out for the Summer Solstice is the debut album by The Mudlands String Band.
Ten songs from America's Deep South (from cajun to bluegrass) played with love & exuberance by this local quintet, some relatively familiar like "John Hardy" (I've long loved The Gun Club's version) and others being deeper cuts for you to be introduced to, this is pretty much a roots set of arrangements. However since members of the group also play in punk mode, don't expect polite drawing room folk tunes. These aim for authenticity but also to convey the life still in the old songs and the innate dynamics which have kept people dancing to them since they were first conceived of. This is Americana as a living tradition rather than nostalgia and apt for live performance.
Half were captured in Birmingham's Mosaic Audio Labs and the others at home by Ben Jennings and you can't see the join.
The full track listing is "Up Jumped a Rabbit", "La Coulée Rodair", "Old Joe Clarke", "Old Ark's A Movin'" "Mes Tits Cochons" ,"Pretty Polly", "Hide Away", "Turn Your Radio On", "Joe Pitre" and "John Hardy" and I loved them all. I think you will too.
