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Released: Jan 15, 2011
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  • Genre: Americana / Indie / Rock

    Location Norfolk, Un

    Profile Views: 46002

    Last Login: 11/5/2012

    Member Since 10/9/2008

    Website themuckrakes.com

    Record Label Hissing Kitten Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The Muckrakes hail from the backwaters Hampton Roads and formed after a lengthy search for like minded folks to create original roots inspired rock music. The group was called together by vocalist / guitarist/ banjoist Jon Owings, percussionist Dave "Gravy" Jackson, and guitarist Mike "Spider" Turner. Answering the call was Cory "Juicebox" Nealon on lead vocals / guitar & lap steel, Jason Russell on bass, and Billy England on keyboards & mandolin. The Muckrakes released their first self-produced 5-song EP in early 2009 which was hailed as, "a stomp strongly through weedy stagnant undergrowth with deftly articulated songs, lyrical stories wrought from heady memories, and true music-craft." In 2011, the band released their second CD, "Grandiphonia". The 14 track album was met with high praise, "...this is combined with raucous, maximum rhythm & blues guitars and hard livin' lyrics to form a song that should be played on every local radio station five times a day for the next six weeks." and "The Muckrakes release is not an album, but an ode to American History. It reverberates with sonic surprises that sound so natural, it's easy to forget there were no trippy feedback effects back in the Sun Records days." Pigeonholing South-East VA, fitting The Muckrakes into any one genre is a difficult task because they meld so many vibrant instruments into a heady mash uniquely all their own. Their music can shift to sometimes quiet and reflective, sometimes foot stomping and rambunctious, sometimes pure and innocent, and sometimes dark and moody. This is a rock band with bluegrass guts, ragtime legs, folk sensibilities and a dash of the blues for good measure. Together, the group has found the right combination of sweet and sinister, of power and weakness, of new and old and is here to help make the celebration of life a little more rowdy.

  • Members

    Jon, Corey, Spider, Jason, Billy & Dave.

  • Influences

    The list of musical influences that The Muckrakes is inspired by is too long to go into. Each member brings their own style, influences, personality, traits and creativity to form originality.

  • Sounds Like

    Sounds like the stack of leftovers in old margarine tubs, wobbling on the wire shelves of a ColdPoint fridge, tilting forward on the cigarette-burned kitchen linoleum of a 1978 single-wide, propped up on chocks cut from a telephone pole in the Goldrun Village RV park.

2011 Best Americana Band

BIO:

The Muckrakes hail from the backwaters Hampton Roads and formed after a lengthy search for like minded folks to create original roots inspired rock music.

The group was called together by vocalist / guitarist/ banjoist Jon Owings, percussionist Dave "Gravy" Jackson, and guitarist Mike "Spider" Turner. Answering the call was Cory "Juicebox" Nealon on lead vocals / guitar & lap steel, Jason Russell on bass, and Billy England on keyboards & mandolin.

Pigeonholing South-East VA, fitting The Muckrakes into any one genre is a difficult task because they meld so many vibrant instruments into a heady mash uniquely all their own.

Their music can shift to sometimes quiet and reflective, sometimes foot stomping and rambunctious, sometimes pure and innocent, and sometimes dark and moody. This is a rock band with bluegrass guts, ragtime legs, folk sensibilities and a dash of the blues for good measure.

Together, the group has found the right combination of sweet and sinister, of power and weakness, of new and old and is here to help make the celebration of life a little more rowdy.



Member Since:

October 09, 2008

Members:

..THE MUCKRAKES ARE:..

Jon Owings--Vocals, Banjo, Guitar
Juicebox--Vocals, Lapsteel, Guitar, Banjo
Spider--Guitar
Jason Russell--Bass
Billy England--Piano, Mandolin
Gravy--Drums and Percussion

Influences:

The list of musical influences that The Muckrakes is inspired by is too long to go into. Each member brings their own style, influences, personality, traits and creativity to form originality.



Sounds Like:

Sounds like the stack of leftovers in old margarine tubs, wobbling on the wire shelves of a ColdPoint fridge, tilting forward on the cigarette-burned kitchen linoleum of a 1978 single-wide, propped up on chocks cut from a telephone pole in the Goldrun Village RV park.

Record Label:

Hissing Kitten Records

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  • Giuliani Claudio

    hey!!!
    hi guys!!
    hello Muckrades Brigade

    great sound in your page
    I appreciate your good tracks

    I send to you a rockin'regards and big "ciao" from me and BUSCADERO: best italian rock magazine and from www.mescalina.i

    god bless you and your music dream streets
    Claude


    ;-)

    1 year ago

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