Kicking Mule Records (also credited as Kicking Mule Record Co.) was a record label founded in 1972 by Stefan Grossman and Eugene 'Ed' Denson , who had previously been a co-founder of Takoma Records. The company's title comes from the country blues sexual two-timing allegory "there's another mule kicking in your stall". Its motto is: It's easy to be easy when you're easy. During the 1970s the company specialised in solo fingerpicking guitar LPs. In the early 1990s the label was bought from Denson by Fantasy, which in itself was sold to Concord in 2004. Kicking Mule has been defunct since, but some titles have been reissued by Shanachie, ...