Mud Bay urge you to think, touch and most importantly Feel on their invigorating and inspiring new single and live video — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The fifth rockin’ single from the Vancouver band’s sixth album Best Laid Plans, Feel is a call to embrace the anti-cerebral, sensual playground of live rock ’n’ roll. “The song is an in-your-face lament about grief and loss,” explains drummer Murphy Farrell, who penned the track. “When you’re down and expect those that are closest to you to hold you up but they do the opposite instead. It seems that some people want to allocate blame for moments in time we have no control over. Well, that just gets downright dangerous in my world. You have to have the fortitude to move on and take care of what’s important. You have to continue to love, remember the good and leave the bad stuff behind.”
Mud Bay have been electrifying audiences with their high-intensity brand of original roots and blues — delivered with a truckload of character — since 1978. They’ve accumulated some well-deserved monikers in their time, including “The Band That Won’t Go Away,” “Saturday Night Entertainment, Any Day of the Week,” and “One of Canadian Music’s Best-Kept Secrets.” All fitting.
Over the course of four decades together, Mud Bay have forged a genre-agnostic identity, letting their musical intuition guide them, embracing new sounds and styles along the way. Released earlier this summer, Best Laid Plans showcases the versatility of the band’s songwriting and their wide-ranging influences — blues, country, Cajun, rock, soul and more.
Harmonica maestro Mud Bay Slim delivers the goods as always with My Disposition, When The Blues Come To Town and Last Slim Dime. Guitarist Randall T. Carpenter also showcases his blues roots with Best Laid Plans and Hard Times, but ventures into outspoken social commentary with Greed and Talk Is Cheap, and makes a heartfelt plea for understanding in troubled times with Love and Forgiveness. But there’s much more than blues here — drummer Farrell brings uptown R&B into the mix with Rock In My Shoe and detours into gloriously unrestrained rock with Pound Rocks. Finally, guitarist Mark Branscombe kicks in some horn-driven soul with Soul In The City, a taste of twang with Down To The Bottom, and some epic rock with Struggle. Nailing down the groove on all these tracks is bassist Dennis Ingvaldson, an integral part of the Mud Bay sound.
Watch Mud Bay play Feel above and listen to Best Laid Plans below.
