The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Controversial Negro [2010] [Promo] (CD, US)

This release copies the artwork and design of the Japanese release and includes the original photo booklet and an additional insert featuring the Mike Edison sleeve notes (the booklets are numbered ‘826663-11816-B1’ and ‘826663-11816-B2’).

Previously released as a promo LP (US), promo CD (UK) and limited / regular CD in Japan.The title for this album comes from the Public Enemy song Burn Hollywood Burn from their 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet. Towards the end of the track someone asks Flava Flav the following question:

“Now we’re considering how do you for a part in our new production, how do you feel about playing a controversial negro?”

The artwork used on the promotional version along with the title Controversial Negro was originally intended for Now I Got Worry.

Reissue Produced: Jon Spencer
A&R: Derek Dressler
Business Affairs: Dave McIntosh
Remastered: Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering, Inc.

Live sound by Peter Arsenault

1 – 20 recorded live November 25, 1996 at The Hotel Congress in Tuscon, Arizona, by Jim Waters, assisted: Saylor Breckenridge
Mixed by Jim Waters at Waterworks West

21- 29 recorded live October 30, 1994 at the DPC in Tucson, Arizona, by Jim Waters
Mixed: Jim Waters at Waterworks West in 2005

All songs:
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI

except:

01. Get With It
Writers: Explosion/Feathers
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI/C. Feathers Publishing, BMI

02. Can’t Stop
Writers: Explosion/Nishita
Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI/Fido Speaks Music, BMI

03. Son of Sam
Writers: Luanda/Gee
Published: Kapitalist Music, ASCAP

10. Fuck Shit Up
Writers: Dub Narcotic
Published: Gravedigger Blues, BMI

19. Flavor
Writers: Campbell/Spencer/Explosion
Published: Cyanide Breathmint Music, BMG Songs inc. ASCAP/Dirty Shirt, BMI

BARCODE: 8 26663 11816
ISB: 978-1-60399-379-1

MATRIX: “DIDX-254169 1 IFPIL327”