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SPENCER thingyINSON THE MAN WHO LIVES FOR LOVE •
Release date: August 22
MR. BLUES EXPLOSION MEETS NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS
CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?
JON SPENCER, heart-attack front man of the BLUES EXPLOSION and shudder-and-shake specialist of rockabilly wildmen HEAVY
TRASH, takes on LUTHER and CODY thingyINSON, masterminds of the NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, in a No-Holds-Barred-
Mississippi Mud Fight, and the result is a ROCK’N’ROLL RUMBLE and a DARKER SHADE OF SOUL!!!
The resulting CD, “THE MAN WHO LIVES FOR LOVE,” is a torrid mess of trouble, twang, and twisted blues.
“I was a little messed up in the head anyway,” confesses Spencer, telling the tale of this backwoods electric throw-down. Recorded
with producer, wizard, and legendary Memphis musician JIM thingyINSON at his Zebra Ranch. “It was freezing cold. It was tough,
just a barn with a space heater. We got that freak element. We got the groovy hate vibe. We got weird.”
Indeed! THE MAN WHO LIVES FOR LOVE casts a long shadow of psychedelic rage and hotted-up rhythm workouts. Ass-kickers
like "That's a Drag" and "Why!?" burn with party-stomping aggression, and songs such as "I'm Not Ready" simmer with a febrile
animosity rarely achieved in even the most mean-spirited punk rock. Bubbling beneath the surface are sui generis explorations like
"Primitive" and "Flood" that capture the frightening collision of the Mississippi Hill Country and New York City.
Originally issued only in Japan, the original Spencer/thingyinson CD has become the stuff of legend. Relentlessly pirated throughout
the rock’n’roll underground, it is finally available to Western audiences, re-mastered with seven additional, previously unavailable
tracks. Get ready to take a hard look inside the mind and heart of Jon Spencer and his World Boogie Assassins, Luther and Cody
thingyinson. You’d be surprised what you might find.
SPENCER/thingyINSON.
CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?
GET TOUGH. ENJOY YOURSELF.
SPENCER thingyINSON
INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCER JIM thingyINSON
Jim thingyinson is a rock’n’roll legend. As a producer, he has bled madness over the works of Alex Chilton, Big Star, the
Replacements, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and John Hiatt, to name but a few. As a musician he has been seen in the
exquisite company of the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, and Aretha Franklin, as well his own solo projects and the nearly-mythical
Memphis blues destroyers, Mud Boy and the Neutrons. This interview took place at his Zebra Ranch studio in Coldwater, Mississippi.
This record sounds a little darker and weirder than what Cody and Luther normally do...
Jon really brings it out of them. They are more spontaneous with Jon then they are by themselves. Cody, in particular, really likes to
calculate. Jon is more in the moment, the way he works.
I think Jon may have come in with only two or three songs. He was actually living at the studio, which is a really ramshackle barn.
He is the only one of my artists who is really smart enough to participate in the whole thing. The studio itself is a piece of art. He
was snowed in at one point, and got very cut off from his own reality.
I’m real anxious for this to come out — In many ways this is a better reflection of what Cody and Luther are really capable of than
what they do themselves. They’ve got some real punk rock roots in ’em that are not reflected as much in the All Stars.
There’s a real North-South Connection between Mr Spencer and the younger Mssrs thingyinson and thingyinson.
Jon is an extension of something that happened initially here in Memphis, between art, punk rock, and old, primitive blues players
that were still alive. That’s what he brought out in the RL Burnside record — I know he has his reservations about it, but I think it is
the most important thing he ever did. That all goes back to the Memphis Country Blues Festival, this kind of art-school crossover
thing that happened down here. Jon picked up on it, big time, and ran with it.
Is it true that at the Zebra Ranch you have the acoustic tiles from the old Sun Studio?
You can’t get the old tiles, what they call “straight drill,” that old insulation that you see in all the old studio pictures. It is environ-
mentally unsound, full of asbestos. The government, naturally, still uses it. Monsanto still manufactures it. When they were doing the
Jerry lee Lewis movie down here, they were using Sun Studios, which is this tourist trap now, but is full of the old straight-drill tile. But
the guy who was running the place got sideways to the movie crew and threw them out. So they had to recreate the entire set, and
they had to find the straight drill. And this guy who was managing me at the time, who was basically a bookie, he found the crap,
somewhere in California. But in order to buy it, they had to get a whole carload. They didn’t need that much, so I ended up with
the rest of it. Up until that point , my studio was just a stage setting. As I put up the tile it started sounding so good it got real.
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Release date: August 22
MR. BLUES EXPLOSION MEETS NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL STARS
CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?
JON SPENCER, heart-attack front man of the BLUES EXPLOSION and shudder-and-shake specialist of rockabilly wildmen HEAVY
TRASH, takes on LUTHER and CODY thingyINSON, masterminds of the NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, in a No-Holds-Barred-
Mississippi Mud Fight, and the result is a ROCK’N’ROLL RUMBLE and a DARKER SHADE OF SOUL!!!
The resulting CD, “THE MAN WHO LIVES FOR LOVE,” is a torrid mess of trouble, twang, and twisted blues.
“I was a little messed up in the head anyway,” confesses Spencer, telling the tale of this backwoods electric throw-down. Recorded
with producer, wizard, and legendary Memphis musician JIM thingyINSON at his Zebra Ranch. “It was freezing cold. It was tough,
just a barn with a space heater. We got that freak element. We got the groovy hate vibe. We got weird.”
Indeed! THE MAN WHO LIVES FOR LOVE casts a long shadow of psychedelic rage and hotted-up rhythm workouts. Ass-kickers
like "That's a Drag" and "Why!?" burn with party-stomping aggression, and songs such as "I'm Not Ready" simmer with a febrile
animosity rarely achieved in even the most mean-spirited punk rock. Bubbling beneath the surface are sui generis explorations like
"Primitive" and "Flood" that capture the frightening collision of the Mississippi Hill Country and New York City.
Originally issued only in Japan, the original Spencer/thingyinson CD has become the stuff of legend. Relentlessly pirated throughout
the rock’n’roll underground, it is finally available to Western audiences, re-mastered with seven additional, previously unavailable
tracks. Get ready to take a hard look inside the mind and heart of Jon Spencer and his World Boogie Assassins, Luther and Cody
thingyinson. You’d be surprised what you might find.
SPENCER/thingyINSON.
CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?
GET TOUGH. ENJOY YOURSELF.
SPENCER thingyINSON
INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCER JIM thingyINSON
Jim thingyinson is a rock’n’roll legend. As a producer, he has bled madness over the works of Alex Chilton, Big Star, the
Replacements, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and John Hiatt, to name but a few. As a musician he has been seen in the
exquisite company of the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, and Aretha Franklin, as well his own solo projects and the nearly-mythical
Memphis blues destroyers, Mud Boy and the Neutrons. This interview took place at his Zebra Ranch studio in Coldwater, Mississippi.
This record sounds a little darker and weirder than what Cody and Luther normally do...
Jon really brings it out of them. They are more spontaneous with Jon then they are by themselves. Cody, in particular, really likes to
calculate. Jon is more in the moment, the way he works.
I think Jon may have come in with only two or three songs. He was actually living at the studio, which is a really ramshackle barn.
He is the only one of my artists who is really smart enough to participate in the whole thing. The studio itself is a piece of art. He
was snowed in at one point, and got very cut off from his own reality.
I’m real anxious for this to come out — In many ways this is a better reflection of what Cody and Luther are really capable of than
what they do themselves. They’ve got some real punk rock roots in ’em that are not reflected as much in the All Stars.
There’s a real North-South Connection between Mr Spencer and the younger Mssrs thingyinson and thingyinson.
Jon is an extension of something that happened initially here in Memphis, between art, punk rock, and old, primitive blues players
that were still alive. That’s what he brought out in the RL Burnside record — I know he has his reservations about it, but I think it is
the most important thing he ever did. That all goes back to the Memphis Country Blues Festival, this kind of art-school crossover
thing that happened down here. Jon picked up on it, big time, and ran with it.
Is it true that at the Zebra Ranch you have the acoustic tiles from the old Sun Studio?
You can’t get the old tiles, what they call “straight drill,” that old insulation that you see in all the old studio pictures. It is environ-
mentally unsound, full of asbestos. The government, naturally, still uses it. Monsanto still manufactures it. When they were doing the
Jerry lee Lewis movie down here, they were using Sun Studios, which is this tourist trap now, but is full of the old straight-drill tile. But
the guy who was running the place got sideways to the movie crew and threw them out. So they had to recreate the entire set, and
they had to find the straight drill. And this guy who was managing me at the time, who was basically a bookie, he found the crap,
somewhere in California. But in order to buy it, they had to get a whole carload. They didn’t need that much, so I ended up with
the rest of it. Up until that point , my studio was just a stage setting. As I put up the tile it started sounding so good it got real.
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