Limited to 500 copies!
A SWAMP-NOIR REWORKING OF ROOTS, BLUES, AND OUTSIDER GEMS - OUT OCTOBER 2025 ON JUKEJOINT500 (but available here already)
Brighton’s swamp-noir stalwarts Mudlow return this September with Run Thru the Cover Crop, a full-length LP of cover versions released via acclaimed German label JukeJoint500.
Long known for their slow-burning, smoke-hung blend of blues, jazz, and Southern Gothic storytelling, Mudlow take a sharp left turn here - offering up ten carefully chosen reinterpretations that reflect the dark undercurrents and idiosyncratic soul of their influences.
But this is no paint-by-numbers tribute. With Run Thru the Cover Crop, the band doesn’t so much cover songs as inhabit them - dragging each track down into the lowlands and dressing it in Mudlow’s signature grit and shadow.
“Some songs came to us like ghosts with their boots still on. Others, we had to drag out of the mud and give them new clothes. Every one of them earned its place.”
The album’s selections span decades and genres, but they’re unified by tone and texture: lonesome, bruised, and cinematic.“We didn’t want to just play them straight,” adds drummer-man Matt. “We wanted to see what they sounded like after being left out in the weather a while - rusted, bent, still humming.”
The album cover - a stark, twilight-drenched image of silhouetted poles and crows perched on power lines - captures the desolate, timeless feel of the music inside. Run Thru the Cover Crop plays like a haunted mixtape discovered in the glovebox of a car that’s been abandoned since the '70s.
The album follows 2022’s Bad Turn and marks a bold addition to their growing discography - leaning into tradition while twisting it into new, stranger shapes.
Run Thru the Cover Crop lands September 2025 on vinyl and digital formats via Juke Joint 500, with further details and tour news to be announced soon.
For fans of Tom Waits, Morphine, Solomon Burke, Kelly Joe Phelps, and anyone drawn to the murky end of the river.
A video to French Fries W/ Pepper – a song by the band Morphine, here played by Mudlow
Another one for Flesh And Blood – a Joe Henry original.
Tracklisting:
Step by Step – Jesse Winchester
Stroll Out West – Eddie Taylor
Flesh and Blood – Joe Henry (via Solomon Burke)
Sally Ruby – Kelly Joe Phelps
Not for Me – Bobby Darin (Sammy Davis Jr.’s version)
The Pink Room – David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti
French Fries with Pepper – Morphine
You’re the One – Tracy Chapman
The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie – Colter Wall
Floating Bridge – Sleepy John Estes (Gregg Allman’s version)
