THE FLAMING MUDCATS * ' TIL THE MONEY 'S ALL GONE
Artist: The Flaming Mudcats Label: Mudcat Music Release Date: 6 February 2024 Genre: Rhythm & Blues On their fifth album Til The Money’s All Gone longstanding Kiwi blues stalwarts The Flaming Mudcats hit the spot with a smorgasbord of 11 fresh songs. Recorded live in Studio 11B over two days, the band’s four songwriters cover everything from Little Feat-ish /New Orleans’ grooves (“ I Should Have Told You That”) through straight-ahead blues shuffles (”Good News”) to the jazz flavoured “Smoke and Mirrors”. They dip their toe in to funk on “Get On Down”, hover in a minor blues on “Satan’s Grip” and deliver a poignant Cyclone Gabriel memorial on the Robert Cray influenced “Waiting For The River To Fall”. A strength of The Flaming Mudcats’ song writing is the strong story lines in the lyrics. This is backed up with some great performances from vocalist/blues harpist Craig Bracken who leads the band with authority while allowing plenty of room for the band to fly. The solid rhythm sect