The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Wail (CD, UK)

Money Mark appears on Buscemi, Yellow Eyes and Turn Up Greene. (all of which would later be released on the 2010 expanded reissue of Now I Got Worry).

Wail appears on the album Now I Got Worry and was issued as a one track promo CD in the US and was released as a single in the UK on [Grey] 7″, [Green] 7″ and CD.

The “John Spencer Blues Explosion” cover artwork was written in Tipex on an escalator hand-rail at Tottenham Court Road underground station in London (there was also a second part further down which just said “Damn”) on the day of the show at the Astoria (6 October 1996).

Each of the sleeves features a slightly different photo by William Bankhead of the same text.

During an interview with MagnetMagazine.com Jon Spencer was asked about the origins of the song Buscemi:

“I assume your song “Buscemi” is about one of my all-time favorite actors, Steve Buscemi.
Sure, that’s an instrumental written in this weird, funky little studio in Dallas. We were on tour with the Beastie Boys, supporting them. It was a weird thing, playing these big arenas. We got to be real friendly with their keyboard player, Money Mark. I think we had day off, and he asked if we wanted to go a session at this funky little eight-track studio. That was one of the improvisations that just sort of happened. There was a lot of Money Mark on Now I Got Worry. He had a real influence on that record.”

02. Yellow Eyes
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Recorded at G Son LA, CA. with Mario C.
Mixed at Waterworks West, Tuscon, AZ with Jim Waters.
Organ: Money Mark

03. Buscemi
Writers: Explosion/Nishita
Recorded somewhere in Dalls, TX, 1995 with Peter Arsenault.
Mixed: Waterworks West, Tuscon, AZ. 1996 with Jim Waters.
Organ: Money Mark.

04. Turn Up Greene
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Recorded and Mixed at G Son LA, CA. 1996 with Mario C.
Piano: Money Mark
Saxophone: Jon Wahl
Thanks to Cristina.

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The original version of ‘Wail’ appears on the album ‘Now I Got Worry’ (CDStumm132)
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BLUES EXPLOSION: Judah Bauer, Russell Simins, Jon Spencer.”

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