Mulebone is an American blues based duo of roots music specialist singer/guitarist Hugh Pool and multi-instrumentalist John Ragusa.
The combo originally formed in 1996 to play at the Brotherhood of Thieves on Nantucket Island.
[1] Their original cassette release, Mulebone was recorded on ADAT in Hugh's apartment in 1996 and sold several hundred copies on their repeated visits to Nantucket.
In 1998 the duo took half the music that was on the original cassette, recorded 5 new songs and put out a CD also entitled Mulebone.
They were featured, along with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Maria Muldaur and David Grisman on the award winning Ellipsis Arts compilation album, American Lullaby.