Just in time for the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Dave Hallowell, Peter Hale, Mike Jenneau and Alan Eaton, collectively known as Mudhook, have completed the special ‘collector’s edition’ of their new CD, here at Mill Pond Music.

With charming, mostly traditional material, ringing guitars and bouzoukis, sweet fiddles, haunting low whistle and vocals sometimes rowdy, sometimes plaintive, this project exactly fits into the kind of genre that the studio is built for (using the word ‘built’ loosely- with full soundproofing still a few weeks away from completion, the occasional gull can be heard in the distance).

Great work, lads,and a great way to start the music flowing at Mill Pond!

(A note here to D-28 players: the AKG C460 mics, with audio upgrade by Jim Williams, made magic with Pete’s guitar-proving that D-28s don’t have to be boomy!)