30 Miles Up is pleased to announce the arrival of blues/roots band Mudcats seventh studio album in ten years, Get Your House in Order.
Over the course of 3 days at Zero Return Studios, 16 songs were performed, recorded and mixed live to 2-track tape to capture the honesty and spontaneity found only in a live setting. No overdubs, no punches, no tricks.
A cover of the legendary Cootie Stark's timeless Jiggaro is presented with 10 original compositions by renowned vocalist and slide guitarist Daniel Mudcat Dudeck.
Guest appearances on this disk include Lola on keyboard, and the Atlanta Horns with Eddie Boyd on saxophone and Randy Skinner on trumpet.
Check out these videos of Mudcat performing live!! Mudcat Live
‘Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck is an internationally known gospel and bluesman. His latest album, Get Your House in Order, was performed, recorded, and mixed live in a three day period in order to catch the “honesty and spontaneity” of the live setting that is so closely associated with the blues. Mudcat continues the traditions of the early blues pioneers while adding his own Mudcat edge, resulting in one of Atlanta’s greatest treasures. He regularly performs his Bayou-baked chicken-party revues at Atlanta’s premier blues club, Northside Tavern’ – Atlanta History Center, May 2009
"Mudcat is a dynamic quartet playing a very eclectic style of music based on the Georgia blues, with a stage presence that radiates the sheer joy they find in performing. Delta blues, jazz, Dixieland, Cajun, ragtime and country all go to make up the unique sound that these fiercely independent young men bring."
- Blues to Bop (Lugano, Switzerland)
"Deep swamp, rockin’ and rollin’, bad to the bone blues … Mudcat and his rompin’ troupe of Atlantans can knock ya down with their Georgia blend of rural blues, country tones, and Appalachian sounds. The mix is a contemporary one though, wielding tradition, innovation, and plain fun-making music. Mudcat also throws down some awesome electric action. … kicks up a clever batch of blues guaranteed to make you feel good."
- Mark A. Cole in Big City Blues (Chicago, IL)
"Authentically-soulful, emotionally-charged vocals given an extra kick by Mudcat’s searing slide guitar. Covers are rendered respectfully, but with a dignified exuberance that’s inspiring. Mudcat infuses everything with an earthy grit that’s truly authentic, carefully avoiding the calculated similarity that plagues many blues releases."
- Hal Horowitz in INsite (Atlanta, GA)
"A Mudcat show is an event you have to experience live to get the full effect. Theirs is a show full of theatre and drama, with their emphasis on old timey, down home blues and folk blues bring a sense of history as well as a sense of dynamics. Mudcat is a jumping, jiving, knee-slapping, funky, soulful, swampy rhythm machine. With a touch of Vaudeville or a side-street minstrel show, Mudcat never fails to leave even the most skeptical among us fraught with pure joy. This is a fun band, and you can’t help getting caught up in their performance."
- Gary House in Golden Isles Weekly (St. Simon’s Island, GA)
heres alittle angel to watch over you,lol, heehee, Hi Darling, what a fabulous weekend, the spirit was flowing again! I enjoyed spending time with you and kathryn, i needed the laughter.Much love to you, Stori
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
HOLA: We want to share you this new video live in the 3rd National Blues Festival in Mexico City: We are Radio Blues, a blues band with piano + metals section, have a nice weekend::
Hi Mud, hope you're doing fine. Wish you can make it to France while in Italy next October !!! Waiting for you... unconditionally ! Cheers from Paris. Clément.
Hey Mudcat, Yer picture of you & Little Brother caught my eye so I spent a little time rollin around in yer page. Youse has got The Stuff as far as I'm concerned! Hope I can get to a show sometime now that I'm livin in the South.
Thanks for the friendship.. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human Trafficking. understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ...what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...please reach deeply into your heart and soul and please in 2009 join a movement or become a part of an event that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY my friend, sending positive vibes your way,lots of happiness,and many BLESSINGS to, love ya Mud, take care~~~ Stori S~~~~~ (sorry im a few days late)
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