Welcome to "Muddy's Picks" on Graveyard Blues! Each month, Jerry's dog Muddy... will pick an album that he highly recommends. The record could be a classic, brand new or something in-between! We'll take a 'deep-dive' into the record, and play a track from it, every week during that month!

Suggest an album for Muddy to consider? Send an email to: muddyspick@graveyardblues.com



Muddy's Pick for january (2023) is: JEREMIAH JOHNSON - "hi-fi drive by" released: 10/21/2022

St. Louis-born roots music guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeremiah Johnson crosses genre lines and sounds amazing doing it on his new release Hi-Fi Drive By.

The record released on Ruf Records finds Johnson in career-best form, delivering ten tight new songs that succeed musically, lyrically, and instrumentally. He co-produced these tracks with St. Louis legends Tom Maloney and Paul Niehaus IV and recorded it with some of the finest players his hometown has to offer.

The mighty Victor Wainwright, a Blues Music Award winner and Grammy nominee, guests on piano, as does harmonica master Brandon Santini, a five-time BMA nominee, himself. The sound they all create blends blues, rock and roll, and swampy funk into a groove-covered surface that gives Johnson all he needs to take flight.

Jeremiah Johnson is a singular talent in a sea of imitators. Unlike many in the game, Johnson takes his inspiration where he finds it and lets the chips fall. His guitar skills are tastefully explosive, his vocals engaging and wise, and his writing is as good or better than anyone else working today.


- rock & blues muse



Some previous Muddy's Pick's: (In no particular order)


B.B. King "Live at The Regal"

Kingfish Ingram "662"

Willie Dixon "I Am the Blues"

Albert Collins "Ice Pickin"

Buddy Guy "Living Proof"

Albert King (w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan) "In Session"

The Allman Brothers Band "At the Fillmore"

Tedeschi-Trucks Band "Revelator"

Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Trouble Is"

Pinetop Perkins "Boogie Woogie King"

Eric Clapton "From the Cradle"

Rolling Stones "Some Girls" (bonus-tracks)

Johnny Winter "Roots"

Hubert Sumlin "About Them Shoes"

Joe Louis Walker "Hellfire"

Scrapomatic "Sidewalk Caesars"

Stevie Ray Vaughn "In Step"

Elmore James "The Sky is Crying"

Carolyn Wonderland "Peace Meal"

Damon Fowler "Sugar Shack"

Buddy Guy "Rhythm & Blues"

Mississippi John Hurt "Avalon Blues"

Southern Hospitality "Easy Living"

John Hammond "Timeless"

Eric Clapton "Me & Mr. Johnson"

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers "The Devil You Know"

Clarence Gatemouth Brown "American Music,Texas Style"

Tedeschi-Trucks Band "Made Up Mind"

Matt Andersen "Weightless"

Marcus King Band "Soul Insight"

Vaughan Brothers "Family Style"

B.B. King "His Best Electric"

Muddy Waters "The Woodstock Album"

Sean Chambers "Trouble & Whiskey"

Samantha Fish "Wild Heart"

Gregg Allman "Searching for Simplicity"

John Mayall "Find a Way to Care"

Gary Clark Jr. "This Land"

Peter Frampton "All Blues"

John Lee Hooker "The Healer"

Lowell Fulson "Lowell Fulson"