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)
Mudcat...We absolutely did not recognize you last night. Great get-up made you look about 22 years old. Loved the band on the lead off Beatles tunes. Thanks for all you do.
Ciao,Mudcat Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, Band, and stupendous voice. compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, be really one whom is worth rather a lot! I hope to listen soon to you, in italy .. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music all the best.. from italy.. and good life.. every day neal
Thanks for the Friendship Add!! Much appreciated. Check out our
music. It's mostly me and my sons and what we do for fun and
entertainment. I also have a personal page (myspace.com/stevenrshields) and a page for my recording studio(myspace.com/studiosixsteve).
Thanks again, Steve
love that "Freedom Creek"!!I didnt know if it was possible to capture the spirit of that place and describe it in just a few minutes but you did a pretty dang good job!!We missed you there this year,Mudd.Hope you will be back again soon!
