(Juke Joint Blues) Old Gray Mule - 2 albums - Sound Like Somethin Fell Off The House (2010), Forty Nickels For A Bag Of Chips (2011), MP3, 320 kbps

With Somethin' Fell Off the House, Austin duo Old Gray Mule brings a ass pocket of whiskey to the Lone Star state with their hard-driving, instrumental blues inspired by North Mississippi hill country mainstays RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and T-Model Ford. CR Humphrey (guitar) and Joe Falco (drums) take you down to Holly Springs, MS with tough one-chord boogies that will shake your house off its foundations. No cheap imitations here -- these guys are the real deal, throwing down thick modal grooves on cleverly-titled originals like "Send Me Your Panties," "Odell Harris is Cool as Hell," and "Thanksgiving Boogie." Guest vocalist Mississippi Gray Carter joins the fray for "River's Up Y'all," the lone vocal cut, and the duo honor hill country patriarch Burnside with a rocking rendition of "Poor Black Mattie," recorded live at Armadillofest. Fans of Fat Possum's blues releases from the '90s would do well to add this fine album to their collection, stat. --Roger Gatchet, Living Blues contributor

Every song on this record is a direct tribute to the men who have influenced how I play. If you are a mainstream blues listener, chances are you have never heard of most of these men and if that's the case I'd like to introduce you to Belton Sutherland, Pat "RockaDaddy" Murphy, Paul "Wine" Jones, Jack Owens, Robert Belfour, Junior and Kinney Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, and Lightnin Malcolm.
40 Nickels For A Bag Of Chips was recorded live with NO overdubs, NO effects, and NO Les Pauls in 1 hour 50 minutes at Delta Recording Services in Como, Mississippi. Every song but "Kill The Old Gray Mule" and "Issaquena" are first takes. Kinney had never heard ANY of the songs except "Issaquena" prior to recording them. Issaquena was our warm up song, and somehow we got off beat on the first try for "Kill the Old Gray Mule" so the song presented here is the 2nd take.
CR Humphrey - guitar
Kinney Kimbrough - drums
Jimbo Mathus - Spiritual Advisor and Sketch Artist
Justin Showah - Engineer
Mixed and Mastered by Justin Showah at Delta Recording Services, Como Mississippi