Artist Information
Biography
Blind Mule is a band whose music can’t be classified into one specific category. It’s not hard to believe since the players that make up this band may not have even one song in common out of the tens of thousands of songs on their ipods. The core rhythm section is with a bass player that has his feet rooted in punk, and schizophrenic hands that have trouble keeping the music to just one personality.
You need to feel bad for the drummer whose able to keep up with those hands as they guide the beats to somehow blend together east coast country, reggae, ska, punk, and the stops and starts that happen all within one song.
The rhythm section gets it’s many textured colours from organ, keyboards, banjo, and accordion. All played by the same man. Not all at once, but sometimes he tries to. This eclectic musician is always open to the search of a different sound, and enjoys bringing new evolution to the group.
The lead guitar in Blind Mule is by a musician who is a long time traveller. He brings to the group the knowledge of many jams with people from all walks of life. His playing styles give the element of a memory of the people he’s met that have come and gone.
It would be hard to say something like “and now to talk about the person that fronts the band”, because it is hard to say who really is the main focus. An audience member could have a total different experience of a Blind Mule show, depending on who they watched.
So, if you were to pay attention to the person who held the most mic time, you would hear passed the melodies and into the story telling lyrics. Stories that range from the life of a sniper, a drug ring leader, a prostitute, a ghost that awaits a long lost husbands return. All the way down to the fundamentals of love, lyrics about friends, and the humour in drunken phone calls.
Blind Mule overall may not have a category, and possibly never will. They will always make honest music no matter where a specific song will take them. To a person going to see a Blind Mule show for the first time, the fans would tell them: keep an open mind, and enjoy a high performance show that can take you anywhere you’d like to be if you allow it to.
Instrumentation
Graham Peacefull - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Joey Balducchi - Vocals, Guitar
Tyrone Ramsey - Bass
Jon Edwards - Banjo, Vocals, keys
Vince Waters - Drums
Discography
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Blind Mule is a new action... indie prog rockers trying to get as simple as a Grateful Dead campfir...
Setlist
The Ghost of Caroline
Who is Gonna Pay for this
The Day I was Born
Firehouse
Not Your home
Doe See Doe
Dr Crippin
The Thin Line
Bend it like the week-end
Collar up
Duration: 45 minutes - 1 hour
NOTE: this is only one of our sets, since we have
a bunch of different sets we use for Blind Mule.
