WHOT Episode 151 – “Baptized in Muddy Water” by Ayron Jones
Hosted by Mangus Khan

[It begins not with fire, but with tension. Guitar feedback hums like a warning. Then the chords drop—heavy, unapologetic.]

“You’ve found your way to Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan.

Episode 151.

And if you’re hearing my voice tonight, maybe you’ve been somewhere dark.

Maybe you’re still there.

Tonight’s track?
Not for the unscarred.

Ayron Jones – ‘Baptized in Muddy Water.’

From Child of the State.

A title that isn’t poetic.

It’s personal.

A reminder that for some, identity isn’t chosen—it’s assigned by survival.

And the mud?
It’s not just metaphor.

It’s memory.
Trauma.
Systemic weight.

This song asks a question nobody likes to sit with:

What if your rebirth never came clean?

“I was baptized in muddy water / by the broken hands of time…”

Ayron isn’t glorifying pain.

He’s telling you: this is the water I was given.

Not holy.
Not pure.
Just real.

The guitars groan under the weight of his past.

The drums don’t carry a beat—they carry a burden.

And his voice…

It doesn’t cry for help.

It demands space.

For every foster kid who aged out.

For every addict who made it one more day.

For every person still learning how to wear their scars without shame.

This track doesn’t offer closure.

It offers recognition.

That your origin story might be muddy.

Might be cracked.

But it still made you.

And Ayron Jones?

He isn’t asking for a do-over.

He’s building something out of the debris.

Blues-rock fused with gospel bones.

Not nostalgia.

Not trend.

Just truth.

And that’s what this booth is for.

Not just sound.

Witnessing.

Episode 151.

Ayron Jones.
Baptized in Muddy Water.

A hymn for the haunted.

A groove for the ghosts you’ve learned to live with.

This is Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan—

Still spinning from the muddy side of grace.

Still here.”

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