Tractor Jerry and the Mud Bucket is a return to a past era marked by bluegrass festivals and camp sites scattered up and down the east coast. A flat picking guitar player placed a frustrated banjo into the hands of his son with a prediction that once youth and rock music ran it's course, the roots of traditional old time music would emerge. The father didn't know that the travel through alternative rock would color and shape the sound and add some raw grit and punch to what is a now hybrid. Fascinated by the instrumentation of traditional music and troubled by an often shallow depth of lyric, the Mud Bucket sets out in this Freshman effort to muddle alt country and new grass. Most importantly, as can be derived from the name, Tractor Jerry and the Mud Bucket aims to have fun in this musical experiment, not take things too seriously and make music worthy of the stage and the porch.