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Muck Sticky enjoys the companionship of his mom and sister as he creates music to inspire individuals to think optimistically and be less judgmental.
His Music: Since 2004, Muck Sticky (Justin Osburn) has produced five independent albums, including Muck Sticky Is My Friend (2008), a hook-laden homage to the opposite sex driven by an NC-17-rated hedonism. Frequent stage prop: a humongous (imitation) marijuana cigarette.
Photo by Alan Spearman
Muck Sticky enjoys the companionship of his mom and sister as he creates music to inspire individuals to think optimistically and be less judgmental.
In $5 Cover: In a faithful rendition of his stage persona, he plays a puckish hip-hop artist whose be-cool-with-yourself message makes “Up with People” look like a Wagnerian opera by comparison. Muck’s fictional crush on Kate Crowder is emblematic of so many one-sided pursuits, teetering between paying off and pouring sour milk on his otherwise sugary-cereal outlook. Featured songs: “This n That,” “Make-Believe,” “The Icky Muck.”
In $5 Cover Amplified: Muck Sticky’s dogged avoidance of pain and depression are revealed to have their roots in the loss of a best friend — a defining moment never far from his mind as he supports his mother and sister in working toward a more abundant life.
On Memphis music: “I make my music because it’s something that I haven’t heard already. I’m afraid that if I got into a big studio with some huge-name superstar, that it would just end up being like everything else there is out there. And that’s not what I want to do.”
Latest news: He is at work on a self-produced feature-length film. Learn more at myspace.com/mucksticky.
—John Hubbell
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