Lucky Mud

Artist Information

Biography

Lucky Mud's new CD, Into the Night, is starting to get airplay in Europe as well as here in America. Fourteen original songs from Mike and Maggie McKinney bring out their skills as both vocalists and songwriters.
An important new album from the duo, each song tells a story, though there is no ‘theme.' It starts quietly with Into the Night, a tale of driving an old car into the unknown, "The night sky is dusted with stars/ and there's a pale crescent moon on the rise/ I've spent my whole life just running from you/ and I don't really know why."
The duo splits the songwriting on this, their eighth album, as Maggie follows Mike's opening song with a poignant story of living alone. Into the Night ends with a Cowboy-Swing song called Born to Honky-Tonk, then Maggie's raucous Truth With a Twist.

"Lucky Mud is from the deeper side of Folk Music. The couple have a soulful connection that is palpable, and their ballads are a much needed departure from the cookie cutter, sample-driven fodder currently filling the airwaves. A splendid way to battle the daily grind. "
EARBUZZ

"Lucky Mud's new CD (Ride the Pony) is a showcase of original contemporary folk music - pure down-home Americana, from Mike's beautifully melancholic "Evangeline," to Maggie's wonderful show-closer, "Ride the Pony," But it's the duo's milk-and-honey harmonies that wrap their sound up into one neat package"
Rice B. RadioIndy

Mike and Maggie have played their original songs from the mainstages of the Florida Folk Festival and the Will McLean Festival to a sold-out concert at the legendary Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar, Ireland. Their music has taken them to concerts in Newcastle, England, and to The Forge, in Bandera, Texas. They have eight CDs showcased on CD Baby and their own website - http://www.luckymudmusic.com

One of Maggie's original songs, Banshee, is now the title cut on a new Independent Film out of Oregon, making the rounds of film festivals.

Mike's book, A Thousand Bridges, released to critical acclaim as a hardbound novel from Walker Books in NYC, is now available as an eBook in all readers:
Available now on Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/A-Thousand-Bridges-ebook/dp/B0061YAU5Y
iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-thousand-bridges/id475526637?mt=11
Sony at http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/michael-mckinney/a-thousand-bridges/_/R-400000000000000529707
Barnes and Noble at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-bridges-michael-mckinney/1013957032

His writer's blog, http://writinginbedsleepinginthechair.blogspot.com/
is now online.

Instrumentation

Michael McKinney, vocals and guitar, and Maggie McKinney, vocals, guitar, mandolin and bodhran (Irish drum).

Discography

Currently eight CDs listed on both their website and CD Baby. They're getting airplay in Florida, Texas, California, Boston and Ireland. The CDs are Southern Zen, Underneath the Florida Moon, Slippery Slope (listed in New Releases, Dirty Linen #129), KarmaGeddon (also listed in Dirty Linen), Lucky Mud - The Tinkers (Our Celtic Roots), a collection of Celtic songs, both traditional and original, Ride the Pony (tell the story), Live at the Martin Theatre (volume1) and the latest, Into the Night, now available on CD baby.
Lucky Mud now has their own studio! Southern Zen Studio at their Maggie's Farm in the Florida Panhandle

Links

• Live, Old Marble Stage/Westport, Ireland
• MySpace

Audio

• Lucky Mud - The Earth is an Island
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• Moments Of My LifeOZ
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• Mr. In-Between 5:22
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• Dancin' with the Devil 3:03
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• Born To Honky TonkOZ
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• Saturday Night Cockfight 2:09
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• Cold, Black Water 3:07
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• The Clown Song 3:10
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• Tommy's Girlfriend 5:22
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• Drika's Grave 2:12
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• Slow Duck Pie 2:24
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• Bad Girls 4:52
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• Bottle Rockets 4:19
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• Banshee 2:39
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Lyrics

• The Clown Song (I'm in love with you)
• Angels
• Tommy's Girlfriend
• Cold, Black Water
• Saturday Night Cockfight
• Slow Duck Pie
• Bad Girls
• Bulldog
• You're the Only One (who knows why)
• Bottle Rockets
• Banshee

Video

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Press

• Lucky Mud on Dirty Linen [+ Show ]
  

  Lucky Mud hosts new live Americana Music Radio Show Dirty Linen July 10th online version see fo...Lucky Mud hosts new live Americana Music Radio Show
  
  Dirty Linen July 10th online version
  see following link
  
  dirtylinen.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/new-live-americana-radio-show-in-panama-city-fl-hosted-by-lucky-mud/
  
  

• "Roots Rising" by David Hayes [+ Show ]
  

  ...Karmageddon is a landmark album for Lucky Mud. Sure to capture the attention of audiences on the ......Karmageddon is a landmark album for Lucky Mud. Sure to capture the attention of audiences on the Gulf Coast and world-wide for it's insightful take on the regions growing pains. The album's first track (Cold Black Water) is a testament to the value of hope over materialism......Karmageddon is full to the brim with simple truths that are at the heart of good songwriting.
  Maggie McKinney has emerged from the background to step into full command of her music. Her momentum as a songwriter has built over the last 3 albums and is admittedly hard to keep up with according to her other half. She is the kind of songwriter that shoots from the hip......

• Panama City Coastline [+ Show ]
  

  ...a serious treat awaits you. Mike and Maggie McKinney, known to initiates and fans as Lucky Mud, h......a serious treat awaits you. Mike and Maggie McKinney, known to initiates and fans as Lucky Mud, have been entertaining for many years from Florida to Ireland. If you lived through the 60's & 70's you're familiar with the format. Maggie & Mike don't just put on a show, they make the audience a part of it. They perform original songs, with focus on the lyrics rather than background music or a backup band....The ability to improvise and catch their audience by surprise is their unique and warm style of involving the audience personally. Lucky Mud vocals are frequently reminiscent of other singers. One can often catch a similarity to the sound of Willie Nelson in Michaels' voice when he performs non original pieces and Maggie can do a pretty smoky Janis Joplin sound as well.
  Their original music, however, is all their own. A unique blend of voices that complement each other perfectly and provide an evenings entertainment that you will treasure for a long time.
  In this day and age you may never find another couple who can yodel and make you like it.
  If you have an opportunity to listen in on one of their performances, by all means do so.

• "Around Town" by Rebecca Valle [+ Show ]
  

  A Lucky Mud show provides folk, blues, Celtic, honky tonk, cowboy yodels and a little rock and roll....A Lucky Mud show provides folk, blues, Celtic, honky tonk, cowboy yodels and a little rock and roll.
  Lucky Mud's Michael McKinney provides vocal and guitar and Maggie McKinney lends her vocals, guitar, mandolin & bodhran to the music for tight harmonies on the strong, original lyrics. ..Focus on the lyrics that Maggie & Mike insert into their performances......

Setlist

At festivals and concerts Lucky Mud plays originals from an extensive repertoire. their sets include songs from their CDs, the last three listed under New Releases in Dirty Linen. They also play many more originals, so far unrecorded.
Mud is known to play all night, if encouraged, and sometimes forgets to take breaks. Their original music weaves traditional folk, blues and early country into their Americana sound. But it's always the lyric that drives the band.

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