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Tracklist

1 Shake Them Hard Luck Blues 3:17
2 The Creeper 3:23
3 Frankie And Albert 3:28
4 My Bucket's To A Hole In It 2:50
5 Red Dog Rag 2:40
6 East St. Louis 5:57
7 Brady 2:19
8 Struttin' To Tootsie's 2:23
9 What Kind Of Pants Does A Gambler Wear 3:44
10 The Train That Carries My Girl From Town 3:47
11 Old Joe 2:30
12 Big Rock Candy Mountain 2:33
13 Paul And Silas 4:34
An album of acoustic blues & ragtime guitar. Songs of hard luck, gambling, booze, lust, gluttony, jealousy, sloth and other deadly sins. Crying, bragging, moaning and shouting glory, all to the tune of a syncopated guitar played with a strong right thumb
Genre: Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date: 2002

Album Notes
Joel Mabus has a wide and varied repertoire. A fixture on the folk and roots music scene, he is also known as a songwriter and an accomplished instrumentalist. Born in Southern Illinois in the 1950’s to a musical family, Joel has been touring nationally and recording since 1978. His dad was a champion fiddler and his mother a banjo player – they both worked road shows for the WLS National Barn Dance during the Great Depression (see Joel’s album available on CD Baby – “The Banjo Monologues).

Mabus has been featured at festivals such as Kerrville Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, The Boston Folk Festival, California’s Strawberry Festival and many others.

He has appeared on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, and his composition “Firelake” is longtime theme song for syndicated radio show, “The Folk Sampler with Mike Flynn.”

Joel has appeared in concert on many stages: The Ark in Ann Arbor, Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, Passim in Cambridge, Old Town School in Chicago and many more. He has taught guitar, songwriting and banjo at many music camps: Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, California Coast Music Camp, Augusta Heritage in Elkins, WV and Summer Acoustic Music Week in NH, to mention a few.

Thumb Thump was conceived as a blues and ragtime project, and released in 2002.