Bill The Welder is the Plumbers, the “band” who opened up for Descendents when there was no opening band. Consisting of Bug and whoever happened to be onstage.
Soaked in an ambience as warm as an old tube amp, Mutations knocks off seamless collages of organic source material with his trademark nonsense-as-wit.
If you want empirical proof that the Blues are still around us, livin’ and breathin’ and bleedin’, look no further than Fat Possum Records of Oxford, MS.