September 7th, 2024, 8:00PM

Chickasaw Mudd Puppies with Nikki & the Phantom Callers

@ Wild Heaven Garden Club

The Garden Club Presents:
CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES
with Nikki & The Phantom Callers
The Garden Club at Wild Heaven West End
Saturday, September 7th
Tickets: $18.00 Advance $22.00 Day of Show (plus taxes & fees)
Early Promo Code "MUDD" for $15.00 discounted tickets
Only available from 6/10 11:00 AM - 6/14 at 11:00 AM for the first 50 ticket purchasers
Doors: 7:00 PM   Show: 8:00 PM
Ages: All

Genre: Country / Rock 
Style: Roots Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Blues-Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Cowpunk, Punk/New Wave
R.I.Y.L.: Mojo Nixon, Camper Van Beethoven, Fetchin Bones, Hoots and Hellmouth, R.E.M., Scruffy the Cat, The Cramps,The Gourds, Willie Dixon

CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES
Let’s get right down to brass tacks, y’all: the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies are back! And if you ain’t excited about that, doggone it, you either don’t know a lick about what you’ve been missing or you just ain’t quite right. Their brand spankin’ new record Fall Line is a high-octane distillation of all the sound and the fury and the supercharged heart and soul that made this crackerjack combo oh so rip-roaringly great from the get-go. It hoots and it hollers and it hearkens smack-dab back to when they kicked off the decade in Southern-fried style with their red hot debut EP White Dirt, following it up like white lightnin’ with their last barn-burning full-length 8 Track Stomp.

NIKKI SPEAKE & THE PHANTOM CALLERS
Growing up in rural Dadeville, Alabama, Nikki Speake has a specific Southern grit embedded in her soul. More Flannery O’Connor than Margaret Mitchell, there’s a morbid spirit to much of Speake’s writing, and nowhere is that more apparent than Nikki & the Phantom Callers’ debut LP, Everybody’s Going To Hell (But You and Me). The eleven-track collection of boot-stomping alt-country and jangly indie-rock weaves a series of stories exploring a beautiful darkness in stark contrast to their predominantly sunny tonality; a Southern Gothic study of grief soundtracked by country-tinged ‘60s pop. “I am very Southern, I grew up in a traditional Southern Baptist family going to church three times a week,” says Speake. “Those older Southern generations have so much grief surrounding them—even the church services are morbid. I think my vocabulary was formed by that, so it’s just how I think.”  

Speake has been living in Atlanta for years now, playing in the garage-rock power trio Midnight Larks and the all-girl psych-rock outfit Shantih Shantih, and performing alongside acts like Shooter Jennings, Lydia Loveless, L.A. Witch, Joshua Hedley, Black Lips, Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires & more prior to forming the Phantom Callers in early 2017. In the short time since their formation, the band—featuring lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Speake, lead guitarist Aaron Mason, drummer Russell Owens, and Speake’s Shantih Shantih bandmate Anna Kramer on bass and backing vocals—has garnered acclaim from national media outlets including Paste, Wide Open Country, PopMatters, Cowboys & Indians Magazine & more, and in 2018 was named Atlanta’s best country band by Creative Loafing.  

"Atlanta band Nikki & The Phantom Callers are an eclectic mix of country, gothic rock and honky-tonk." -WABE City Lights with Louis Rietzes

"Speake’s ability to pour raw emotion into her lyrics creates an authentic narrative woven into her music." - American Songwriter

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