The Mutineers
Yarmouth, ME
Folk / Bluegrass / Blues
Bio
The Mutineers play traditional folk, blues and old-time country music. With the necessary ingredients (guitar, mandolin, acoustic bass, banjo) the songs are adapted and arranged in ways that are at once traditional and unique. The songs are selected, arranged and sung by Stuart MacDonald, who has been collecting, learning and playing traditional folk music for a number of years. He also wrote several songs on "Coal Creek." Stuart is joined by Jeff Trippe, a multi-instrumentalist originally fr...
Press
“... this is the threepiece
string band’s sophomore full-length, a
follow-up to 2005’s fine Where Mockingbirds
Roam. They don’t change much, emphasizing
Stuart MacDonald’s clear vocals, which show
impressive range, and a take on acoustic music
that’s somewhere between Garcia-Grisman,
Merle Travis, and the Old Crow Medicine Show.
Their originals, mostly penned by MacDonald,
often stand above the traditionals included here,
as they seem almost Civil War era in their
authenticity . . . Best are the title track — harmonica-fueled and featuring great lines like, “People living wrong, people living right/People praying to the Lord in the middle of the night” — and “Prism,” which MacDonald crafted using his deceased grandmother’s poetry: “Like a prism,
I hold my life up to the scrutiny of the sun.””
Artist Stats
Fans: 423
Song Plays: 243
Visits: 717
Video Plays: 78
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Blog
Drover's Bones to be released October 5th at One Longfellow Square!
Sep 04, 2011 at 03:42 PM
The Mutineers’ third recorded project, Drover’s Bones, is officially due out on October 5th, 2011, when the trio will host a CD-release
party at One Longfellow Square in Portland.
Band members Stuart MacDonald, Jeff Trippe, and Darren Finnegan are thrilled about this latest effort, which is by any measure an
extremely eclectic album, with so...