"Each track works with a dreamy insistence. Excellent, innovative stuff which cries out to be heard live"
Review of Riding A Hurricance in Maverick Magazine
"I really love Mutter's album. It instantly takes me to a cool place and keeps me there. His voice is soulful and painfully honest, he clearly sings from the heart"
Chris Hughes (acclaimed producer)
"Mutter Slater has one of the great voices of British rock - and he writes a mean song too!"
Billy Bragg
"The best voice this side of Paul Rodgers"
Properganda Magazine
About
Once upon a time, a band called Little Dixie was playing in a pub in Burton Bradstock, a tiny village in West Dorset one night a couple of years back. A newly-arrived resident to the village, one Billy Bragg, happened to be checking out his new local that night and was impressed enough with Little Dixie's frontman Mutter Slater's belting blue-eyed soul voice and the quality of his original songs to establish a working relationship that's lead to Bragg taking the producer's chair for the Mutter Slater Band's debut album Riding A Hurricane.
The Mutter Slater Band sees the frontman of Stackridge return to his teenage r&b, soul and blues influences to create a world of songs telling of illicit loves, edgy relationships, train stations and bus stops, temptresses and losers, fame, egos or life in a combat zone. The music behind the bluesy, understated vocals is honest, pared down and earthy yet delivered with a light dextrous touch. For an acoustic guitar powered three-piece they cover a lot of ground.
The Band
MUTTER SLATER (vocals, flute, rhythm guitar)
Mutter was spotted by the future manager of Stackridge playing with his band at Glastonbury Town Hall. It wasn't too hard to persuade him to move to Bristol, where he joined the band in 1970. He then embarked with the band on a gruelling series of one-nighters all over the U.K., developing his legendary and blindingly idiosyncratic stage act (slippers, grey flannels, dustbin lids etc.) alongside the band's strongly melodic yet equally quirky songs and instrumentals.
The band was signed to MCA records in 1971, recording their debut album 'Stackridge' that year... More > > >
CHRIS LONERGAN (bass, slide guitar)
Chris has been ever-present on the Southwest’s burgeoning blues/r&b/soul circuit for more years than he cares to remember, playing with the likes of Custer’s Last Blues Band, the Steamer Ducks (fronted by ex-Pretenders, Paul McCartney Band, Norah Jones and currently John Meyer guitarist Robbie Mcintosh), the Jess Upton Soul Band and boogie piano maestro Ben Waters... More > > >
ADY MILWARD (drums, backing vocals)
Ady cut his musical teeth in punk-orientated bands around Dorset, before being lured onto the blues/r&b/soul scene by promises of fame, riches and not having to play so fast. He’s accompanied Lonergan on countless gigs all over the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and the Middle East, forming an intuitive partnership that’s an essential element of the band’s rhythm section... More > > >
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