Mud Boy And The Neutrons

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Described by Bob Dylan as "that great band nobody can find", Mud Boy and the Neutrons took their name from Ry Cooder's horrified reaction when asked to play support to Alice Cooper. They gathered together some of Memphis's finest and most uncontrollable talent in Sid Selvidge (guitar/vocals), Lee Baker (guitar/vocals) and Jim Dickinson (piano/guitar/vocals) aided and abetted by puppeteer and maniac Jimmy Crosthwaite on washboard. Their appearances were sporadic and unpredictable, sometimes as much theatre as rock'n'roll, and their recordings even more sporadic and sometimes almost perversely impossible to track down. Their story is chronicled in Robert Gordon's unmatchable book about Memphis as centre of resistance to the normal, It Came From Memphis. They ceased to be over a decade ago with the senseless murder of Lee Baker, but played a posthumous date in 2005, with typical perversity, a world away from the Memphis jukejoints, in London's Barbican Centre, which was filmed but - in keeping with the rest of their career - seems unlikely to escape and trouble the global consciousness any time soon. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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