Remember going out to see bands? The sticky-hot thrill of live music and late-night revelry? The new single from Andrea & Mud is a joyous reminder of those long Atlanta nights where mischief and smoky bars intermingled with an overriding sense that anything could happen. In other words, it’s rowdy and loud, with a nice dose of shit-eating humor mixed in. If you’re not yet hip to the duo’s raucous surf-western sound, imagine if Junior Brown grew up on a steady diet of South Park, Doritos, and weed.
“Yer Majesty” begins where many great nights do did—drunkenly leaving Star Bar, with plenty of flavor from Mud Mosley’s chicken-picked Telecaster. What follows is a duet that captures the intensity of Carter-Cash’s “Jackson” but through a funhouse mirror where each thrilling hairpin turn pulls you deeper into Andrea & Mud’s hypnotic vocals. The song ends with the promise to do all that boot-scooting mayhem again real soon.
Listening to the song’s outlandish tale, we figured there had to be a backstory worth sharing. And, man, we weren’t disappointed.
“We met an Australian man at Star Bar one night,” Moseley recounts. “It was after Muddy Roots and he had traveled to Atlanta to catch his flight back home. He ended up coming to see us play at Star Bar and we really hit it off. Blaine from Nashville Pussy was there too and we were already friends, so after the show, us, Luke (the Aussie with the fancy haircut) and Blaine (the rocker in a band named after poon) all went to eat at the Majestic. We ate pancakes and Blaine had an ice cream sundae that was all over his facial hair, and when we were done, we smoked a joint and drank a few beers in the parking lot.
“Luke donated a handsome amount to our GoFundMe for our last album which entitled him to a song written just for him. He asked for it to be about this night, so we embellished it slightly but ended up loving it so much that we included it on Bad News Darlin’. This has been our most popular song live for months. People just love this song. It’s kind of hilarious. Andrea did not want it on the album, but she’s glad that she lost that one because she loves it now.”
Recorded live with Damon Moon at Standard Electric Recorders Co., “Yer Majesty” is the third single to be revealed from the duo’s upcoming sophomore LP Bad News Darlin’. It features a stellar lineup of Tre “Danger” Watts (upright bass), Will Derr (drums), “Smoking” Brett Resnick (pedal steel), Liz Sloan (fiddle), Chad Paulin (trumpet), Jim Ivy (saxophone), and Matt’s Blues (Matt Jordan on piano).
Listen below.
Bad News Darlin’ is out June 12.
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