The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat and Bone [Promo] (CD, UK)

17 September 2012

Bronze Rat / Shove

BR29

01. Black Mold 02. Bag Of Bones 03. Boot Cut 04. Get Your Pants Off 05. Ice Cream Killer 06. Strange Baby 07. Bottle Baby 08. Danger 09. Black Thoughts 10. Unclear 11. Bear Trap 12. Zimgar
NOTES:
UK promo CD in PVC wallet with no artwork and A4 press sheet for The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album Meat and Bone recorded in October 2011 at Key Club Recording, Benton Harbor, Michigan (using a Flickinger console originally custom built for Sly Stone). New Meat and Bone press release: “Meat And Bone is the first studio album by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in eight years. This is straight-up, Grade A Blues Explosion, mixed by Mr. Spencer himself, with no special guests. Meat And Bone is 12 prime cuts of raw rock ‘n’ roll, recorded on Sly Stone’s “Riot” Flickinger console at the legendary Key Club Recording Studio in Benton Harbor, MI, and mixed in the jungles of New York City. Judah Bauer, Russell Simins and Jon Spencer continue to blow minds with their fusillade of energy and rhythm, and have once again proven that the Blues is #1! The new album comes on the heels of the meticulous and loving 2010 reissues of the band’s 90s albums, including the classics Extra Width, Orange, and Now I Got Worry. (And more recently, the re-release of the long out-of-print seminal Pussy Galore catalog.) It was amid this period of looking back, that Spencer, Simins and Bauer began the process of moving forward. Says Jon Spencer: “We still have that psychic glue that allows us to create music together. Over the course of a year touring and writing new songs and recording, we rediscovered our shared history as a band. We circled the wagons, and went back to our roots. In a way this is almost like another first album.” On stage and in the studio, Judah Bauer, Russell Simins and Jon Spencer have destroyed and rebuilt American roots music with such ferocity and wild abandon, that it’s hard to believe there is anything left. It’s been twenty years since The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion first pressed ‘record’, and twenty years since Spencer and his A-Team of sonic terrorists tore up the indie-rock landscape with fever and a visceral, untouchable vision of rock’n’roll that did for a new wave of blues-punk primitivists what Helen of Troy’s face did for the armada. But make no mistake: The Blues Explosion was there first. They are the original. It was their sanctified outbursts and blues-bending riffs that began the new-fangled roots rock revolution and spawned countless imitators. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has blazed a furious trail into the future with incendiary spirit built from courage, audacity, and revolt. Nothing has been the same since.”
SONG CREDITS:
Recorded October 2011 at The Key Club, Benton Harbor, MI with Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins Overdubs done November 2011 at NY Hed, NYC with Matt Verta-Ray Mixed December 2011 – January 2011 by Jon Spencer Mastered: Fred Kevorkian, NYC 01. Bag of Bones Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Deadverse, Union City, NJ with Alap Momin 02. Black Mold Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Deadverse, Union City, NJ with Alap Momin 03. Boot Cut Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: NY Hed with Matt Verta-Ray 04. Get Your Pants Off Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Oscilloscope Laboratories, NYC with Andre Helan 05. Ice Cream Killer Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Fluxivity, Brooklyn, NY with Brian Thorn and Ed McEntee 06. Strange Baby Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Fluxivity, Brooklyn, NY with Brian Thorn and Ed McEntee 07. Bottle Baby Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Fluxivity, Brooklyn, NY with Brian Thorn and Ed McEntee 08. Danger Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: NY Hed with Matt Verta-Ray 09. Black Thoughts Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Fluxivity, Brooklyn, NY with Brian Thorn and Ed McEntee 10. Unclear Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: NY Hed with Matt Verta-Ray 11. Bear Trap Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: NY Hed with Matt Verta-Ray 12. Zimgar Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Mixed: Oscilloscope Laboratories, NYC with Andre Helan
SLEEVE NOTES:
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DETAILS:
ARTWORK: Lettering: Elizabeth Carey Smith BARCODE: n/a MATRIX: “80 PG7679″* *Generic CDR matrix number.