muck DELUXE

muck DELUXE is a collaborative duo comprising poets and musicians Mark McGraw and Cheri Knight, whose work fuses roots music with avant-garde experimentation to create a distinctive auditory and literary experience. Drawing from the rolling landscapes and working histories of rural America, their pieces weave together field recordings, storytelling, and intricate instrumentation to conjure vivid emotional and visual imagery. Since forming in the early 2010s, muck DELUXE has performed widely, including appearances at both literary festivals and underground music venues, and their projects have received recognition for their innovative blending of spoken word and song.

Constantly evolving, muck DELUXE is known for bringing an improvisational energy to live performances, creating immersive, site-specific works that invite audiences to reconsider notions of place, memory, and the boundaries between music and poetry.