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We have a brand new CD out now called Lucky Mud at the Martin Theatre (volume 1)! It's available on CD Baby - our favorite place on the internet....they've done more for us and other independent artists than anyone we know, and we love being a part of CD Baby!
Our CD is a collection of our original songs taken from our weekly, hour-long radio show with a live audience, recorded Sundays at the art-deco Martin Theatre and broadcast on WKGCfm in Panama City, Florida, then streamed over the Internet on wkgc.org. Listen in, and let us know what you think.
We returned just before Thanksgiving from our 7th tour of Ireland, where we spent time meandering up the Irish coast, from Shannon to Belmullet, then back to Achill Island, playing a great series of shows along the way. Thanks to all our Irish fans for turning out and being a part of the shows.
Take a minute and check out our photos and music, if you will. We hope you enjoy the time spent here. Our new radio show has begun, with Greg Barnhill (writer of Walk Away Joe) sharing our stage. It was wonderful! We have an incredible line-up of talent joining us this year, including Eric Taylor, with a song on Lyle Lovett's brand new CD, an incredible Blues duo from Philadelphia called Beaucoup Blue, and a varied and exciting selection of artists from across Florida. The New 76ers, Slim Fatz and The Mayhaws! Please join us, either at the Martin Theatre or online.
We've just been asked to return to the Florida Folk Festival Memorial weekend at the Steven Foster Park in North Florida. The FFF is the oldest folk festival in the USA, and we're very proud to be there again.
Music is a part of the blood; the hot, pulsing beat we're born with. Lucky Mud's music comes from black dirt and red clay, from the thick and ancient oaks fringed with swaying Spanish moss, from deep black rivers and impenetrable swamps that make up the lush and wild Florida Gulf Coast. Slow folk ballads and coarse honky-tonk are there, as well as echoes of rock and blues that come from growing up in the shadow of ‘family' stories. Stories that true Southerners are born into. Death stories, tales of lost wealth and lost causes are the fairy tales of the South. And Lucky Mud's music reflects that. Folk? Sometimes. Americana? In the broad sense of the lyric as the center of the song, the story that needs telling.
Mike and Maggie have been friends for a long time, married a long time ago and watching their music grow over all that time. As Maggie says in her song, Ride the Pony, "Friendship is like a faithful pony/ Waiting patiently beside the gate/ He'll be there for you when you are lonely/ And he'll always help you find your way
Coming from two Pioneer Florida families, Maggie and Mike McKinney have traveled the world on their music. From The Forge, a cowboy hangout in Bandera, Texas, to a sold-out concert at The Linenhall in Castlebar, Ireland, from Key West, Florida, to a working man's pub in Newcastle, England, their music is the core of their lives.
They began recording at The Martin Theater in downtown Panama City on Sunday July 12th, 2009, with the high-energy trio Highway 19, following every week with an incredible array of talent from the Southeast, ending with the Blues legend Slim Fatz. All the radio shows are available either by single artist or in a boxed set from emeraldcoaststudio.com
Now Lucky Mud is looking forward to all the shows on our calendar, and a brand new series of monthly shows at our own little festival at Maggie's Farm. The good life.
Lucky Mud is "Magic". We're the luckiest of "Mud" because we get to play with wonderful people in magical places. People full of music, people full of joy, people full of laughter and life.
Always looking to travel to new "Magical Places" and share our "Mud Magic". To book us go to contacts on the Home Page.
We are currently working on another new CD, this one filled with original Florida songs and titled Ti-Ti Road. (Ti-Ti, or Tye-Tye, is the first sweet wildflower of Spring here in the Florida Panhandle. The honey men along the wild rivers in this part of the state make their first batches of honey out of Ti-Ti, long before the Tupelo is ready). It's the part of Florida that is still dominated by swamp and forest, where towns are 100 miles apart. Go to maggiesfarm.us for a few photos of our old Florida home....a Cracker homestead built in the mid- to late 1800's.
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Maggie's Farm is a place for music, a place for progressive voices in a green environment and it's our home. We're inviting music lovers and progressive thinkers to join us at
Maggie's Farm where the beautiful Econfina Creek flows nearby. Where Oak and Pecan trees reach to the heavens and the stars are as bright as hope in a child's eyes. Check out the poster in our photo section. Contact us at maggie@luckymudmusic.com for more details.
Our new Southern Zen Studio at Maggie's Farm is up and running, too!)
Maggie and Mike McKinney have been touring as Lucky Mud for many years - from Key West to the island of Sark, off the coast of France, and the main stages of both The Florida Folk Festival & The Will McLean Folk Festival.
Maggie and Mike have been performing their original songs around the world. These songs fill their CDs and range from Americana to folk blues to Florida swamp roots music.
The creativity doesn't end with the music. Mike's novel, A Thousand Bridges, (Walker Books, NYC) received a coveted starred review in Publishers Weekly and was later chosen as one of the Top Ten First Fiction of the year. He has two new novels with his agent.
Mud loves hearing from you, by the way. They've been getting responses from Texas to Russia, and would love for each of you to leave a message on their e-mail. Thanks, too, to the radio stations for playing Lucky Mud's music. The band has a sampler that they'll send out to any interested station free of charge. Remember, Lucky Mud has been known to go around the world for airfare and a good hotel room.
Thanks again for listening.
Love, Lucky Mud
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