Mud, Blood & Beer's Page

Mud, Blood & Beer
http://www.myspace.com/mudbloodbeernyc
mudbloodbeernyc@gmail.com

Stephen Swalsky – 917.655.7497 (Contact for booking, interviews, etc.)

Why, hello! Thanks for coming to our No Depression Member page and (hopefully) listening to our debut CD!

Here’s a little bit about us to help break the ice:

Mud, Blood & Beer is a New York City-based alt-country, roots-rock, twang-core (and other hyphenated words) band that has been kicking around since early ought’ seven playing at some of the best dive bars that Gotham has to offer, including the Knitting Factory, the Lakeside Lounge, and the R-Bar. The band carries on the spirit of alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks, and Jason & The Nashville Scorchers.

The name “Mud, Blood & Beer” is cribbed from a line in Johnny Cash’s classic “A Boy Named Sue”: “Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer” and is a perfectly apt description of who we are and where we derive.

Our self-titled debut disk is simultaneously loose in vibe but tight in musicianship, giving the feeling that it poured from the band like a satisfying cold draft beer chaser to a shot of Kentucky bourbon. We aim for these wise and weary tunes, born of hard suburban living, to be the soundtrack to your drinking, fighting, and lovemaking, and all in the same night. We have endeavored with the crack production skills of Wayne Dorell of the Pigeon Club in Hoboken, NJ, since November 2008 to meld the roots-rock chocolate to the punk-rock peanut butter in a collection of songs that you could imagine either Hank Williams or Joe Strummer wanting to cover, were they not pre-occupied with their dirt naps.

Mud, Blood & Beer is made up of New York City music scene veterans Jess Hoeffner (guitar, vocals), Stephen Swalsky (bass), Jason Fine (guitar, vocals), Frank Cantelmi (lap steel, backing vox) and Stephen Sperber (drums). They deliver the rock, the twang, the harmonies, and the songs.

“Thirteen hook-filled tracks ….. A serious contender for debut disc of the year….Highly recommended” - Hickory Wind


Our self-titled debut CD is available through our website (http://www.myspace.com/mudbloodbeernyc), CDbaby.com, digstation.com, and other Internet retailers. Please buy many copies for use as coasters, Greg Brady-style curtains, or even for listening.