Can the term supergroup be applied to a band that rarely gigged, whose records are impossible to find and no one’s ever heard of?
If so, meet Mudboy and the Neutrons: Lee Baker, Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge and Jimmy Croswait. Although they launched their careers in Memphis, Baker and Dickinson are Arkansas natives.
Dickinson found the band name no one ever wanted while working with Ry Cooder. Cooder was asked by his record label, Warner Brothers, to open for labelmates the Alice Cooper band. Alice Cooper’s theatrical shock-rock sold a lot more albums in the early 1970s, but was obviously not a good match with Cooder’s rootsy music. After the conversation, Cooder reportedly said in frustration, “They’ve got to know I’m not going on the road with no Mudboy and the Neutrons!”
Appropriately, the often wild Mudboy and the Neutrons debuted at a 1973 Memphis Halloween show. Dickinson got Mudboy a demo deal with Warners, but the recordings never went anywhere. Although all were songwriters, the group performed mostly aggressive blues and rock rave-ups. The four were also fairly seasoned performers. Dickinson and Lee Baker had both toured as members of the Mar-Keys.
Lead guitarist Baker played with such real-deal musicians as Gus Cannon, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, Bukka White, and — when Baker was still a teen-ager — Charlie Rich. Baker’s blues-rock band Moloch released an album on Stax and played concerts with MC5 and Iggy Pop.
Jimmy Croswait played washboard in Mudboy, but gained more acclaim as a puppeteer and artist.
Sid Selvidge has his own label, Peabody, which released Alex Chilton’s “Like Flies On Sherbet” — as well as Selvidge’s own solo records, some cut with fellow Mudboy members. He also co-hosts the syndicated radio program, “Beale Street Caravan.”
Little Rock native Dickinson has played on sessions with Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, as well as later producing the Replacements, Big Star and Little Rock’s own Magic Cropdusters. All four members of the band sang.
As the members of the band established themselves in individual pursuits, the legend of Mudboy grew. After more than a decade of sporadic existence, the Mudboy and the Neutrons debuted an album, “Known Felons in Drag,” in 1986 on a small French label.
Again, several years of word of mouth made for a follow-up, “Negro Streets At Dawn,” in 1993. It was recorded by Bob Kruzen at P. Wee’s Saloon, 315 Beale St. In 1995, a compilation of the two albums called “They Walk Among Us” was issued in the U.S., but it too is now out of print.
The Sept. 10, 1996, murder of Baker in Horseshoe Lake (Crittenden County), took away Mudboy’s force. In fact, Dickinson once said of Mudboy and the Neutrons, “All we really are is a backup band for Lee Baker.”
Author Robert Gordon called the music of Mudboy “the missing link between the Rolling Stones and Furry Lewis.” A documentary film of Gordon’s 1995 book “It Came From Memphis” has been in the works for years; a London Mudboy and the Neutrons reunion show was recently staged and filmed for the project.
With Mudboy and the Neutrons recordings so sparse and hard to find, the band’s best legacy may lie in its fruits. Dickinson’s sons, Luther and Cody, have been part of Memphis bands DDT and Gutbucket, and subsequently the North Mississippi All-Stars. Selvidge’s youngest son leads Big Ass Truck. At one point, the children of Dickinson and Selvidge, along with Baker’s, had a band called Three-Legged Puppy, also known as Son of Mudboy.
One of the band’s several retirement shows was held Oct. 1, 1978, at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre. It was called “The Tennessee Waltz,” after Levon Helm and the Band’s farewell show, “The Last Waltz.” During intermission, Gurdon native Gus Nelson performed Leadbelly’s “Bourgeois Blues” — and then sawed his guitar in half with a chainsaw. Big Star’s Alex Chilton was in the audience, and was soon in Nelson’s band, the Panther Burns.
Stephen Koch is the host of “Arkansongs,” heard on Fridays at 6:40 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KUAR-FM, 89.1.
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BOX OFFICE NICOLAS CAGE 1990 PART III - BOX OFFICE STORY
BOX OFFICE NICOLAS CAGE 1990 PART III - BOX OFFICE STORY
SAILOR ET LULA
(WILD AT HEART)
24 OCTOBRE 1990
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Réalisation
David LYNCH
Scénario
David LYNCH
Directeur de la photographie
Fred ELMES
Musique
Angelo BADALAMENT
Production
Monty MONTGOMERY
Distribution
POLYGRAM
Durée
127 minutes
Sailor RIPLEY
Nicholas CAGE
Lula FORTUNE
Laura DERN
Marietta FORTUNE
Diane LADD
Bobby PERU
William DAFOE
Perdita DURANGO
Isabella ROSSELLINI
Dès leur première rencontre, Sailor et Lula tombent follement amoureux l'un et l'autre. Cette passion dévorante n'est pas du goût de Marietta, la mère de Lula, qui demande au malfrat Bob Ray Lemon d'éliminer Sailor. Mais dans la bagarre qui s'ensuit, c'est Bob qui est tué. et Sailor se retrouve en prison. Deux ans plus tard, à sa libération, Lula est là, qui l'attend, avec son blouson-fétiche en peau de serpent. Afin d'échapper à la vindicte de Marietta, le jeune couple quitte la Caroline et part sur les routes vers la terre promise de Californie. Folle de rage, Marietta lance à leurs trousses son amant Johnnie Farragut, ainsi que le dangereux gangster Marcello Santos. Celui-ci, bien décidé à se débarrasser en même temps de Sailor et de Johnnie - son rival auprès de Marietta - prend contact avec son copain Reindeer, un caïd de la Nouvelle-Orléans. Reindeer fait enlever et exécuter Johnnie par Juana la folle, une nymphomane sadique et perverse. Pendant ce temps. Sailor et Lula ont atteint le Texas. où ils retrouvent l'inquiétant Bohby Peru et sa maîtresse Perdita Durango, que Sailor a connue lorsqu'ils étaient tous deux au service de Santos. Pensant que Sailor l'a vu autrefois assassiner le père de Lula avec la complicité de Marietta, Santos a demandé à Perdita et Bobby d'entraîner le jeune homme dans un hold-up où il perdrait opportunément la vie. Mais au cours du braquage, c'est Bobby qui est tué. Une fois de plus, Sailor se retrouve en prison. Six ans plus tard, à sa sortie, il est accueilli par Lula, enfin délivrée de l'emprise néfaste de sa mère. Avec leur jeune fils Pace -conçu pendant leur folle équipée - le couple, assagi mais toujours aussi amoureux. s'apprête à couler des jours heureux.
Enfin ! Après des errements cinématographiques, Nicolas explose (sans jeu de mot) avec la Palme d’or surprise de 1990. Surprise car sujette à beaucoup de contreverses, elle ne fait pas l’unamité loin de là. La cause en est certainement la violence très présente dans le film. Seulement cette violence plait au jeune public, et le succès est au rendez-vous surtout à Paris. Aux USA le succès est confidentiel. Pour David LYNCH, considéré comme un cinéaste majeur, c’est une récompense, lui qui a débuté avec un film à 2 francs de budget et tourné sur plusieurs années « Eraserhead ». Que de chemin parcouru et il est logique qu’il trouve en Nicolas CAGE le seul acteur à l’époque qui combine jeunesse, talent et folie. Dire qu’il est époustouflant est un euphémisme, mais le reste de la distribution n’est pas en reste, Laura DERN en tête. Bizarrement, mis à part « Jurassic Park », l’étrange Laura va disparaître des écrans, ce qui n’est pas le cas de Nicolas définitivement devenu le chouchou de la nouvelle génération de spectateurs. Mais l’acteur est encore totalement oublié des Oscars. Après un tel triomphe critique, c’est avec curiosité et excitation que l’on attend les nouveaux projets de l’acteur.