CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES .. WHITE DIRT

.. Wing Records .. 843 217 - 1

.. Vinyyli, LP, .. 1990

.. Blues .. Electric-Blues-Rock

Sounds like Mojo Nixon's got a cold or Tom Waits is at his megaphone again.

Lots of beating on something - but that don't sound like drums - and whoever's on the harp sure can wail a bit. These Pups got the mean ol' bottleneck Delta blues, all hot and vaporous, and it sort of makes sense that Michael Stipe (REM) co- produced this short LP's worth of tunes, as atmospheric and demonic as it all sounds. Adding to the mystery are the rather odd, mostly one word, song titles; check out: "Lon Chaney," "Raven" and "Frogmore."

"The Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, a duo from Athens, Ga., play a quirky, neo-primitivist version of Delta blues. but the group is actually about much more than playing music. The singer Brant Slay and the acoustic guitarist Ben Reynolds have taken the idea of Delta blues and blown it into a full-scale, three dimensional enterprise that includes stage props, clothing, specialized instruments, lyric topics and production techniques.

The Mudd Puppies do blues as modem-day folk art.

On record, the band similarly tries to re-create the atmosphere and spontaneity of a 1930's front-porch jamboree. Mr Slay's voice growls and then jumps in little whoops and hollers.."

"It may not be easy to say what genre of music Chickasaw Mudd Puppies play, but one thing's for sure: it's a lot of fun to listen to...
AND ITS CRAZY ROCK & ROLL !