MiRACULOUS MULE - Deep Fried!

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London's Miraculous Mule have released one of the coolest albums of the year. It's the sound i've been waiting to hear for a long time. 

Part AlabamA3, part Brit's covering remixes of R.L. Burnside (with a griming of Jon Spencer and/or Nick Cave) part Little Axe's dirty techno soul blues, a pinch of the salty sweat of Lomax's prison blues (and gospel) recordings, and slurried with heavy smarts, good taste, and respect for the music they're working with. 

Miraculous Mule's sound is blues and gospel at its root, but the band plays their music as if it came out tomorrow. The production is headphone/stoner-worthy, with lots happening deep in the mix to keep your ears pricked, but its done without detracting from the groove. 

I don't believe in best of's anything but if I did Deep Fried would rank high on that list. Kudos to Miraculous Mule for convening a truly brilliant and essential album. 

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by The Soul Of John Black. 
Do it. Seriously. 

You'll thank me. 
It's shooting up the blues charts, but it's so much more than blues. 
Formerly of ska-funk masters Fishbone, John Bigham dba The Soul Of John Black manages to combine the delicious hybrid grooves that I dig from Little Axe, with a deep knowledge of the essence of serious blues and pop history.  

It's like Al Green fronting Parliament covering Beatles songs with a  jam-up of the Isley Bros and CCR . It's like Tony Joe White gettin' down on the porch with Cee-Lo. The music Bigham makes on Good Thang is a  sinuous and very sexy jam that will probably end up getting you in a lot of trouble. .

This album is so dirty sexy good it should be sold at the checkout at Walmart, Johnny's Corner Truck Stop BBQ, and Starbucks.  Don't matter how you get it. Just get it.

Give this dude your money. Get his album Good Girl Blues while yr at it.  Go! Get it!

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the straight coolness of The Soul Of John Black. 

The vids below are worthy but barely begin to do justice:

LiTTLE AXE - Bought For A Dollar Sold For A Dime

I've been listening the hell out of the newest Little Axe album. What a thriller! Who's Little Axe? Dude played guitar with Doug Wimbish (bass) and Keith LeBlanc (drums) on may of the early SugarHill Records classics like Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message as well White Lines. He also played on many of the Tommy Boy Records releases. From there he went to London to work with ON-U Sounds recordings with Adrian Sherwood, working on releases by Tackhead, Dub Syndivate, and African Head Charge. Take all those vibes and meld them into blues and you begin to get the Little Axe sound. Dig it:

Little Axe @ Facebook // MySpace // iTunes

From previous Little Axe albums, all highly worthy of your ducats:

This is a live version of probably my fave Little Axe track: