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

27 September 2010 Shove Records n/a
01. Get With It
02. Can’t Stop
03. Son of Sam
04. Cool Vee
05. Afro
06. R.L. Got Soul
07. Blues X Man
08. Watermain
09. Love all of Me
10. Fuck Shit Up
11. Hot Shot
12. Skunk
13. The Vacuum of Loneliness
14. Sticky
15. Bellbottoms
16. The Feeling of Love
17. Down Low
18. Dynamite Lover
19. Flavor
20. Full Grown
21. Train #2
22. Train #3
23. Soul Typecast
24. Support a Man
25. Greyhound
26. Sweat
27. Backslider
28. ’78 Style
29. Dissect
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NOTES:
Promo edition of the UK / Shove Records edition of the expanded Controversial Negro issued as a printed CDR with insert in PVC sleeve.

In comparison to the Japanese release the 2010 expanded reissues adds Bellbottoms to the original running-order and an additional 9 tracks recorded at DPC in Tucson on October 30, 1994.

This version copies the artwork and design of the Japanese edition. Previously issued 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.

SONG CREDITS:
This reissue (p) & © 2010 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

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

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DETAILS:
ARTWORK:
Package Design: Jimmy Hole
Production: Jeff Palo
Artwork/Package Supervision: Karrie Stouffer
Production Assistance: Robert Kim
Design: David Warner and Jon Spencer
Lettering: Take-shit & Akira

BARCODE: n/a

MATRIX: “CO073S MBI 80UG”*

*Generic CDR matrix number