Muddy Roots

Every song released on Fat Elvis Records since 2013

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The Melvins - "Dr. Mule"

This is the debut solo single from Reed Turchi, off the limited edition 7" out 2/25/14 on Fat Elvis Records (Knoxville, TN). 

After five years away from his home in Western North Carolina and the Swannanoa valley, these are songs of summer thunderstorms and endless highways, of railing shadows creeping across the afternoon. Reed’s slide playing blends with and floats above the sounds around him: one microphone, a screen door, wind-chimes, boots on porch-planks, and a night-train somewhere down across the river.

Because when you're lost...


Recorded and Mixed by Reed Turchi at 26 Wamboldt
Mastered by Kevin Nix at L. Nix Mastering, Memphis
Logo artwork by Carson Ellis. 



When You're Lost It's All A Sign

Side B from "When You're Lost It's All A Sign" 7" out on Fat Elvis Records. 

"From the opening moments of cicada chorus and "I grew up on the mountainside..," this song is dedicated to coming back home, and to the girl who brought me back. Each verse is a chapter, from childhood, to high school, years chasing the twin yellow lines of the world, and then finally, the return.  

After the cicadas and distant slide that start the song, the melody was inherited from an old-time Appalachian banjo lullaby, with the intertwined electric guitars of the chorus influenced by the spiritually uplifting, road-ready language spoken between Duane Allman and Dickey Betts in those early, unforgettable Allman Brothers songs. 

The title, "Lovers from other lives" itself refers to a series of letters I traded with that same girl through high school, of imaginary lives, places, and meetings---though, ironically, it would be years before we actually got to know each other--back from the past, out of thin air, yet as if no time had passed. This was the first song written for the 7", and it served as the mental and musical bridge to "When You're Lost It's All A Sign," which ended up as the title track. When I'm out on the road, as is usually the case, these are the songs that transport me back." 

Lovers From Other Lives

Compass Rose

Wasteland

Morgan O'Kane - Trouble In Mind

The Melvins - Civilized Worm

The first full length album from Morgan O'Kane 

01 Time

Lost Bayou Ramblers feat. Gordon Gano from their upcoming Mammoth Waltz

Bastille (feat. Gordon Gano)

GIVERS' Kirby Campbell and Producer/Engineer Korey Richey remix Lost Bayou Rambler's single Bastille feat. Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano from the upcoming Mammoth Waltz

Bastille GIVERS Remix

Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

From the Fat Elvis Records 7" release "The New Sounds of TransWestern"

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