Lucky Mud: Home
"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 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 pack"
Rice B. RadioIndy
"Lucky Mud has come to the end of their third Americana music series Live at the Martin Theatre with an absolutely stunning performance by Paul Kamm and Eleanore MacDonald from Northern California.
With a packed house for the last show, the audience saw maybe the best Americana music duo around. From their opening song, Young Boys to the last, Calling on Love, Kamm and MacDonald were brilliant."
We were very proud to have the opportunity to introduce them to the Florida Panhandle.
Now, with 25 concerts under our belts as both singer/songwriters and hosts, we're ready to hit the road on our 2010/2011 tour that takes us through Central Florida and up the East Coast. We'll keep you posted on upcoming shows, and we'd love to see you there.
Our magnificent Gulf of Mexico is battling for its life, and we'll do whatever we can to save it. From Andrew Jackson to Big Oil, Florida's not a stranger to being carpet-bagged. Join us at Maggie's Farm (maggiesfarm.us), our seven acre home near the Econfina Creek in Northwest Florida, for our monthly celebration of music and life.
We have a CD out now called Lucky Mud Live at the Martin Theatre (volume 1), a collection of our original songs from the first series as we hosted 10 weeks of touring singer/songwriters. 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!
We returned just before Thanksgiving last year from our 7th tour of Ireland, where we played a great series of shows. 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.
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, swift 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, and wrapped it up August 29th, 2010. Twenty five concerts, all fantastic and none of them the same. We found a great audience and we'd like to thank them all for being so faithful to the music.
The name Lucky Mud is from the Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat's Cradle, where it's said that 'God made mud, and some of the mud was lucky mud. It got to get up and look around at all the other mud.'
And we're the luckiest of Mud.
To book a Lucky Mud show, please 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.
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 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.
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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