Puddle of Mudd

Tickets available locally at Ranch RecordsPuddle Of Mudd is an American post- grunge band from Kansas City, Missouri. The band has sold over 7 million albums and has a string of No.1 mainstream rock singles in the US. Their major label debut Come Clean has sold over five million copies.Ask Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin about the writing and recording of the album Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love Its all easy peezy, dude, no big deal at all...Not to him, maybe. Wes Scantlin is custom-made for the new millennium, a rock star without the pretense, and a frontman whose spontaneity propels his offstage personality as much as it does his onstage delivery. Wes is constantly adjusting to the vibe in the room, throwing his flavor in there and constantly trying to make people laugh, explains bassist Doug Ardito. He doesnt do the David Lee Roth thing, where he delivers the same lines every night, hes completely off-the-cuff.On Volume 4, Scantlin does deliver the same savvy lyrics that fans have come to expect since the bands multi-platinum debut, Come Clean, weaving subtle innuendo and not-so-subtle lyrical wordplay around vocal hooks so thick, they even seem to make lifes more sour realities easier to swallow. Case in point, Psycho, the smash single from the bands 2007 release Famous that rationalizes a relationship with, maybe Im the one, who is, a schizophrenic psycho.Famous, like both albums before it, was certified Gold after selling more than 500,000 copies in America alone. Propelled by Psycho, the album cemented Puddle of Mudds status as bona-fide hit makers, and earned them industry accolades including Billboards No. 1 Mainstream Rock Song of 2008 and No. 2 Rock Band of the Year, where they finished second only to the Foo Fighters. Keeping in that tradition, the new album goes down like the smoothest shot youll ever take. No chaser required - unless, like Scantlin and guitarist Paul Phillips, you opt for a cold, frosty one.Volume 4 is a homecoming for Phillips, who left the band shortly into the recording process for Famous. Despite the success of Psycho, something was missing, and when Phillips and Scantlin reconnected earlier this year, all the prior tension hadmelted away and their chemistry was rediscovered.Early Years (1992-2000)Puddle Of Mudd was formed September 13, 1991 by Wes Scantlin (vocals/ rhythm guitar). According to Wes, the band name was inspired by practicing next to the Missouri River levy which always inundated the bands practice space but never ruined their equipment because they were on the second floor. Their first album, Stuck, was released in 1994 on V it spawned two radio singles.2001- NowIn September 2014, the band released the non- album single Piece of the Action.In July 2015 band announced that they were recording their sixth studio album.