Mudslide Charley - Main Street

Album: Main Street
Size: 109,2 MB
Time: 47:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front

1. Judgement Day (5:00)
2. Blues For You (3:31)
3. City Boy (5:09)
4. Almost Through (4:06)
5. Rolling Forward (5:01)
6. You Can (3:28)
7. Black Train (3:40)
8. Sisyphus (4:05)
9. Blues Farm (3:54)
10. Drivin Home (3:42)
11. Stardust Motel (5:22)

Mudslide Charley is a Missoula, Montana born band that plays gutbucket blues and house rockin' roots rock. They draw inspiration from a more antiquated era when Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker first fused the rough and rural vibes of Southern acoustic blues with modern electric instruments.

The band writes and performs original songs pumping with vital relevance and emotional fervor that exude a true reverence for the blues musicians who have paved our way. Using gritty electric guitar, elastic bass, chest thumping backbeat, and rich soulful vocals punctuated by harmonica, piano, and saxophone, Mudslide Charley creates a musical gumbo that rattles bones and loosens limbs.

Mudslide Charley has opened for Marcia Ball, Charles Neville, George Thorogood, Anna Popovich, Nick Schnebelen, Hoyt Axton, The Common Heart, and Hillstomp, and has performed at the Magic City Blues Festival, Salmon Blues & Brews Festival, Wallace Blues Festival, Hot Springs Blues Festival, Philipsburg Blues & Brews Festival, the Flathead Blues Festival, and the Riverfront Blues Festival.

Personnel: Marco Littig (guitar, vocals); Liza Ginnings (vocals); Paul Kelley (bass, vocals); Roger Moquin (drums, vocals); Phil Hamilton (harmonica, saxophone, vocals); Russ Parsons (piano, organ).

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Mudslide Charley - Clearwater Junction

Album: Clearwater Junction
Size: 120,2 MB
Time: 51:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Other Shoe (3:23)
2. Bootsy Basil (3:32)
3. Road To Brookston (4:48)
4. Lil' Miss Molasses (4:06)
5. Long Death Ride (Live) (5:17)
6. Don't Look Back (4:49)
7. Reactionary Man (5:08)
8. Juniper Girl (5:34)
9. Adrianna (2:59)
10. Look Away (7:00)
11. Stop Talking (5:06)

Clearwater Junction is the fifth album from Mudslide Charley, a very impressive blues band based out of Missoula, Montana. Featuring 11 self-written tracks, this is an album of superb modern blues, incorporating hints of soul and roots rock, and is well worth investigating. The band comprises Liza Ginnings on lead vocals, Roger Moquin on drums and vocals, Russ Parson on keys and vocals, Phil Hamilton on harmonica, saxophone, guitars, percussion and vocals, Marco Littig on slide/lead guitar and vocals and Paul Kelly on bass and vocals. In addition, Lee Rizzo, Christine Littig and Georgia Littig all provide backing vocals and Jeff Stickney guests on trumpet.

The band make maximum use of having so many good singers available, layering the vocals hypnotically on tracks such as “Stop Talking”, emphasizing the bridge/chorus in the early rock’n’roll of opening track, “Other Shoe”, or in answering the perhaps previously unaddressed question: “what would Queen have sounded like if they had been a blues band from Montana?” in “Lil’ Miss Molasses”. The band are comfortable essaying a wide range of blues-influenced styles. So “Bootsy Basil” centers around a catchy single note riff from Littig, while the Blues-Rock of “Long Death Ride” features some deep harmonica from Hamilton.

The bass-led “Don’t Look Back” features a nod to “Amazing Grace on slide guitar, a spoken word verse and an ace solo from Parson, while “Look Away” channels the band’s inner Gospel (and it’s so worth waiting for the five minute mark on this track, at which point the band achieves lift-off). “Reactionary Man” and “Juniper Girl” both highlight Littig’s top drawer steel guitar playing, and the minor key “Stop Talking” recalls the reggae influence of The Neville Brothers’ “Yellow Moon”.

Even on the Rolling Stones-esque “Road to Brookston”, the band’s blues influences shine through with a riotous honky tonk piano solo from Parson. Lyrically too, the band is not afraid to gently push the envelope whilst remaining very much within the blues genre. So while “Juniper Girl” is a love song from Littig to his wife, “Don’t Look Back” tells the story of a veteran and “Other Shoe” contains the memorably wry couplet at the end of each verse: “Working my way to the bottom from the top, waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

And while various band members lay down impressive solos, this is an album of blues songs, not an excuse for the guitar player to stretch out for chorus after chorus, as is seen in so many other modern blues albums. Clearwater Junction was recorded in Hamilton’s basement, with Richard McIntosh as sound engineer and mastering by Will Borza. All involved deserve recognition for capturing such excellent performances. Warmly recommended. /Rhys Williams

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Mudslide Charley - Words & Bones

Size: 149,7 MB
Time: 63:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Rock, Blues Soul
Art: Front

01. Starting From Scratch (4:49)
02. Southern Don't Cross The Dog (3:58)
03. Papa's Comin' Home (4:02)
04. Devil Can't Stop The Rain (3:43)
05. Liquid Velvet (4:30)
06. Love Machine (8:09)
07. Jelly Donuts (4:28)
08. In The Basement (4:03)
09. Holy Man (5:02)
10. Don't Stop Me (5:14)
11. Death Letter Blues (Live) (6:01)
12. Burden (3:39)
13. Little Birdie (5:42)

MudSlide Charley is a Missoula, Montana born band that delivers heartfelt roots rhythm and blues. From its first sparks in 2004, the band has continued to ignite and morph over the years into the now five piece powerhouse of diverse musicians and songwriters. The band still draws inspiration from a more antiquated era when Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker first fused the rough and rural vibes of southern acoustic blues with modern electric instruments. MudSlide Charley blends their blues foundation with Stax era R&B, and Indie Rock to write and perform original songs that bristle with vital relevance, emotional fervor and house-party fun.
In their songs, you can feel the emotions behind the words belted out. You can hear truth and genuine reverence for the blues musicians who paved their path. This is a group that grooves. As musicians and individuals, they seem to rise and fall together creating a sound that intertwine so harmoniously one could not imagine a single element lacking. From the gritty electric guitar, elastic bass and chest thumping backbeat to the passionate soulful vocals punctuated by harmonica and saxophone, MudSlide Charley creates music that makes the limbs feel looser.

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Mudslide Charley - New & Used

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:24
Size: 117.7 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:34] 1. One Step Ahead Of The Blues
[4:33] 2. Why Baby Why
[4:43] 3. Sweet Nostalgia
[4:09] 4. Coward's Way
[4:33] 5. Pillow Talk
[4:52] 6. When The Bottom Drops Out
[4:18] 7. Ice Water
[4:12] 8. Possession
[5:35] 9. Nickel And A Dime
[3:51] 10. Feeling Good
[6:00] 11. Living For Another Day

MudSlide Charley creates a powerful and seminal expression of 21st century blues. With our soul firmly planted in the dirt of the Mississippi Delta, we weave together Blues, Hip Hop and early R&B into the fabric of our sound, to write and perform songs that exude emotional fervor, and joyous spontaneity. Simultaneously brash and playful these blues tell vital stories full of danger, longing, sexuality, and hope. Loaded with groove and Inspired by the patchwork of American roots music, MudSlide Charley’s brand of gut-bucket blues and ramshackle soul is as authentic as it is original and will surely make you dance.

In November, 2014, MudSlide Charley released their 3rd (and best) CD, New & Used. It is the culmination of a year of work in the studio, on stage, and in rehearsal, honing an artistic statement that is original, yet firmly rooted in the delta blues, R&B, and Americana that formed the musical personality of the band. MudSlide Charley consists of Marco Littig, guitar and vocals, Emi Kodama, vocals, Tahj Kjelland, bass and vocals, Roger Moquin, drums and vocals, and Phil Hamilton, harmonicas and saxophones.

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