“It was really rough when Chuck (longtime keyboardist and sound manager Chuck Davis, who died in 2004) passed, and then we started having problems with bassists and rhythm guitarists. “I’ll confess that there was a time there where I almost quit,” drummer Jason Boyles said. Along with such musical comrades and compatriots as the North Mississippi All Stars and Kudzu Kings, Electric Mudd offers a 21st century variation of the hollers, moans, cries and stories that comprise the classic blues vocabulary.īut fans who attend their Saturday night show at the Five Spot will also hear some current influences, and also see a group that’s undergone a number of major changes over the last couple of years. Mississippi blues-rockers the Electric Mudd are among a group of contemporary Delta types who have altered and reshaped the music coming from that famed sector. Mississippi band plays its own brand of blues "Mississippi band plays it own brand of blues" We're not trying to come up with anything too unique, or stray too far from what we grew up on, but we push it a little further into different areas." The band will actually be in Humboldt three nights: Friday at Six Rivers Old Town, Saturday at the Grange, Sunday at Six Rivers McKinleyville. "Basically we take all of our influences and combine 'em. "The term we came up with to try to describe it is `delta swamp boogie,'" he explained. Growing up around here you can't help being influenced by the blues by osmosis if nothing else."īut the music they play is a far cry from Muddy's blues. "We took the name from an album by Muddy Waters," he noted. "Not much around here but fields and the Mississippi. What's Cleveland like? "Pretty boring," he said, his thick drawl followed by a laugh. I found Electric Mudd guitarist Brian Ware at home in Cleveland, Miss., deep in the heart of Mississippi delta country. It might have been influenced by the fact that besides their Sunday night gig in McKinleyville they're playing Saturday night at the Bayside Grange with the Compost Mountain Boys, who definitely do play bluegrass. My guess was the e-mail from Six Rivers McKinleyville describing the Electric Mudd as a "Delta bluegrass" band was way off the mark.
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