Miracle Mule

The Subdudes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Narada
• ASIN: B0001NBLRC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,519 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Morning Glory

2. If Wishing Made It So

3. I'm Angry

4. Brightest Star

5. Maybe You Think

6. Known To Touch Me

7. Standin' Tall

8. Don't Doubt It

9. Mississippi Home

10. Sound of Her Voice

11. Oh Baby

12. The Rain

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Subdudes!, August 19, 2004

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S. Finefrock (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Mule (Audio CD)

This was my first experience with the music of the Subdudes, an it will not be the last. There is not a bad song on the entire CD. Brightest Star, I'm Angry, Known to Touch Me and Morning Glory are all excellent songs. I usually don't like the term Roots Rock, but it does apply here. a great amalagram of Soul, Nworleans R& B, Gospel, Rock and Roll and Country that only could be pulled off by a southern band. In fact for some reason this reminds me of the early sides by the Allman Bros. Not that they are guitar jams, but that they effortlessly blend a soulful cocktail of music. Even my kids (age 3 and 6) love this. They always request the Donkey CD anytime we go anywhere in the car.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen Once - Buy Twice - one for your best friend! (Studio Album), November 9, 2005

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Caslo Cranston (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miracle Mule (Audio CD)

Hurricane Katrina smashed into the gulf coast near Waveland, Mississippi on August 29, 2005. In the immediate aftermath - New Orleans residents, with a heavy sigh of relief, thought their prayers had been answered 'til the water started rising in the streets.
Much of New Orleans, built below sea level, was inundated following catastrophic breaks in the protective levees. The water rose to 15 feet in some areas and drowned 3/4's of the city.
Submerged in the awful brine was a good friend's extensive CD library that seemed to have faired better than his LP collection.
"These can be saved," I told him.
When he left the next day for Cleveland, his newly adopted home. --- I began to realize the scope of my elected task- a tedious cleaning of hundreds of CD's that may have well been left on a trash pile.
In the process of archiving the undamaged CD's I came across a disk that the Itunes database did not recognize. It was an advance CD of the Subdudes' Miracle Mule. The song order did not seem quite right so I was forced to listen to all of the the tracks hoping to guess the order of the songs.
What I found was surely more than I expected.
The Radiators, Cowboy Mouth and Better than Ezra have long been New Orleans hometown favorites, yet have never seemed to consistently manifest the divine confluence of pop lyric and melody.
Prepare yourself for the Subdudes - strange name great sound. You may never be able to find a copy of the Advanced Miracle Mule CD but the commercially available Miracle Mule is still quite exceptional - only missing one song. Reminiscent of the soulful style of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, the Miracle Mule CD gives you a taste of what makes Louisiana musicians more than exceptional.

Update:

I have since collected almost all of the Subdudes releases - Annuciation, Behind the Levee, Poverty & Primitive Streak -and have had the opportunity to hear them play live at Jackson Square in New Orleans.
In my opinion Miracle Mule is their best effort!!!

caslo

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Performance, May 10, 2004

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A. Krauss (Somers, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Mule (Audio CD)

After undergoing a bit of a listening hiatis with respect to the Subdudes music (roughly in relation to the groups disbanding), I heard these guys playing live last week on our local PBS radio station (WFUV). They played 3-4 songs from this CD and I could tell from the getgo this was something special. Well, I ran right out that day and bought the CD and was not disappointed. Indeed, its virtually a perfect performance and the recording quality is pretty darn good - - nice and clean ! As one other reviewer said, the first tune is nice, but does not compare with what lies ahead. There is a nice mix of ballads (which are simply gorgeous) and some edgier tunes. All in all, a well balanced CD. I am not a great fan of Accordian, which can IMHO irritate if over done, but on this CD its use is understated, tasteful and melodic. Get the CD, you can't go wrong. My only gripe is I would love to have heard even more background vocal harmonizing, because that on the CD is fantastic.