Showing posts with label Muddy What?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muddy What?. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2026

Muddy What? - Neon Soul

Album: Neon Soul
Size: 106,2 MB
Time: 46:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2026
Styles: Blues/Roots/Folk mix
Art: Front

1. Neon Soul (6:50)
2. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (4:53)
3. Letters On A Line (6:34)
4. Tales Unveiled And Secrets Sealed (5:37)
5. Lost Symphony (6:39)
6. Uncontainable (3:11)
7. Blind Willie McTell (6:10)
8. Voodoo Child (3:31)
9. Ina's Lullaby (2:31)

With their new studio album, Muddy What? open a sonic space where deep roots and modern energy find a shared pulse. Over 46 minutes, the album takes listeners on a musical journey full of movement, variety, and dynamics: driving grooves that push forward, songs with storytelling depth, and moments that leave room to breathe.

The majority of Neon Soul consists of original compositions, in which the band confidently showcases their unmistakable signature and artistic maturity. In classic Muddy What? fashion, a few carefully chosen cover versions are also included – reimagined, uniquely interpreted, and infused with the playful spirit that makes the band’s live shows so thrilling and unmistakable.

Each track on the sixth album by the award-winning new blues band led by the charismatic siblings Ina and Fabian Spang has its own personality, opens doors to new sounds, and invites the listener on a rich musical journey. Neon Soul sounds confident, distinctive, and forward-looking. Blues here is not a quotation, but a living language – rooted, open, and present. An album for anyone who wants to feel blues as alive and vital, not frozen in tradition.

Personnel: Fabian Spang (guitar, vocals); Ina Spang (guitar, mandolin); Michael Lang (bass); Manfred Mildenberger (drums).

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Monday, June 15, 2020

Muddy What? - Blues For You (Live)

Size: 152,7 MB
Time: 65:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Funky Blues
Art: Front

01. If Trouble Was Money (Live) (6:40)
02. Day Of The Locusts (Live) (7:11)
03. Blue Trailer Blues (Live) (5:33)
04. Haven't Seen You For A While (Live) (8:15)
05. Your Life Is Broken (Live) (5:35)
06. If Not For You (Live) (6:41)
07. Down By The River (Live) (4:53)
08. Blues For You (Live) (9:05)
09. If Six Was Nine (Live) (7:43)
10. Mandorient (Live) (3:52)

In June 2020, the new blues trio released their third album, finally fulfilling their wish. The right title: "Blues For You".
The album is a collection of ten songs, all played live and on stage in front of cheering audiences. And the band is really accelerating! Michi Lang on drums, Fabian Spang on vocals, guitar and electric Dobro and Ina Spang on lead guitar and mandolin heat up the audience.

The first song is a funky version of "If Trouble Was Money". And with wah-wah sound, dynamic beats and an exuberant improvisation section it is clear from the start: The band moves freely in their music, is detached from conventional and one-dimensional expectations of the blues. And so creates her very own "New Blues". The soulful reinterpretation of Dylan's song "Day Of The Locusts" as a touching ballad or the earthy original composition "Blue Trailer Blues" find the trademark sound, the MUDDY WHAT? among many other peculiarities.

The title song "Blues For You" shows how much the three musicians have grown together with a feeling for the blues. A melancholic, long lament with energetic and powerful vocals, with triplets that bring you into a trance and with soulful, snotty solos by the lead guitarist. With seemingly never-ending intensity, the song increases until eventually everything finally gives in to the feeling of the mighty blues. MUDDY WHAT? but then immediately with her pushing version of Jimi Hendrix's "If Six Was Nine". With pulsating electric guitar sounds, vehement vocals and hidden hip-hop beats, the inner eye sees the audience dancing ecstatically.

You can clearly hear, not least from the encore (a percussive oriental-style composition with the title "Mandorient" with mandolin and dobro), that the three young musicians do not fit into the "usual blues scheme", but do what they want to do they like. And only rely on feeling and feeling for each other. And how well that ultimately arrives in front of the stage can even be heard thanks to the live recording on this album.

“Blues For You” captured all of this in one flow: the uninterrupted dynamism and the stimulating tension between musicians and audience during a live concert.

Blues For You

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Muddy What? - Dancing In The Halls

Size: 102,5 MB
Time: 43:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. Death Letter (5:08)
02. Dancing In The Halls (4:26)
03. Down By The River (3:19)
04. Baby, Stop Crying (6:40)
05. Change It (4:50)
06. Worried Man Blues (6:06)
07. Rollin' And Tumblin' (3:01)
08. Haven't Seen You For A While (7:15)
09. Home Bound Train (2:44)

Personnel:
Ina Spang: Mandolin
Fabian Spang: Vocals, Guitar
Michael Lang: Drums, Bass

After releasing their debut album "Gone From Mississippi", the band presents MUDDY WHAT? about a year later her second album: with "Dancing In The Halls" a collection of powerful and empathetic Blues songs, this time with acoustic instrumentation. After the first album (with electric setup) the Unplugged recordings became another part of MUDDY WHAT's dynamic, mood and orchestration, often admired on live concerts.

Dancing In The Halls

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Muddy What? - Gone From Mississippi

Size: 130,9 MB
Time: 56:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Chicago Blues, Delta Blues
Art: Front

01. Mannish Boy (5:56)
02. Love In Vain (5:58)
03. Moving On (4:40)
04. Gone From Mississippi (6:50)
05. Fire (3:16)
06. Blue Trailer Blues (5:48)
07. One More Time (4:35)
08. Your Life Is Broken (4:20)
09. Sad Smile (7:27)
10. If 6 Was 9 (3:43)
11. Nine Pound Hammer (3:23)

Fabian Spang (guitar, vocals), Ina Spang (guitar, mandolin), Michi Lang (drums) and Hubert Hofherr (harp) arrange and interpret songs of well-known greats like Son House, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan refined. No matter if blues-traditional, own composition, funksounds or singer/songwriter-ballad: Bluesy soundscapes with powerful voice, mighty sustain, energetic solos and soulful harmonies are created on stage.

Gone From Mississippi