the blackout

It’s no wonder The Blackout sounds familiar. Not only does Speedball Baby revel in the basic elements of rockabilly and blues-punk much like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion does, but two Jon Spencer Blues Explosion members play on this album. Jon Spencer and Judah Bauer are credited for having written the best songs, too: “Wanna Scratch It?” and “Do the Blackout,” respectively. (more…)

bio

Tav Falco first felt the twinges of musical inspiration growing up in rural Arkansas, where he was drawn to the rustic blues and jazz forms that abounded in the Mississippi Delta area. While working as a brakeman on the Missouri Pacific railroad, Falco would hop rides into Memphis- where ?music was just in the air,? Falco remembers-to hear legendary country blues men like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Fred McDowell and Houstan Stackhouse. (more…)

Bob Log III – “Log Bomb” (Fat Possum Records) ODMETNI?KA ZNAMENJA

?ikica Simi?

Razne subkulturalne skupine su plesale “horizontalni mambo” sa bluzom. Orgije su se uvek, kao ?to dolikuje, zavr?avale orgazmi?kim trijumfom. Pegavi, rahiti?ni engleski de?aci, gladni svega u posleratnoj bedi, ?ezdestih godina pro?log veka su, igraju?i skaredni ples sa bluzom izmislili muziku koju volimo. Se?ate se Rolingstounsa, Enimalsa, Jardberdsa, sastava Krim. Sli?ne posledice imao je susret bele, vaspovske (WASP), ju?nja?ke omladine sa ovim “crnim” muzi?kim idiomom: Olmen braders bend, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie. Nedavno, poigravaju?i se bluzom, D?ek i Meg Vajt su spasili rok muziku najavljene smrti. Da je to mogu?e nekoliko godina ranije je nagovestio D?on Spenser. (more…)

interview

Q: Listening to your album, Bukka White’s Memphis Hot Shoes” comes to mind. Does he have any influence on you?
A: I like Bukka. He plays fast & jumpy. Bukka got teeth.

Q: How did you come up with the idea of wearing a helmet?
A: It just feels right. Try it. (more…)

THE SCIENTISTS ? ?PISSED ON ANOTHER PLANET?

Recently a scientist (a real one) asked me what the deal was with the Scientists early stuff. He liked everything post “Swampland” but wasn’t sure about the lyrics in all those early songs with titles like “That Girl”, “Girl” and “Pretty Girl”. My answer was that I didn’t write those lyrics. The songs were written thus: James Baker, the original Scientists drummer, would announce that he had a song and “sing” the lyrics for me to play back to him. From his atonal renderings I would invent a melody with an appropriate chord sequence and perform it, to which he would say, “Yeah, that’s how it goes” or, “No, not like that”, if he didn’t like it. In defence of James’ lyrics, the “girl songs” were part of his celebration of rock and roll of which dumb lyrics were, as far as we were concerned, “de rigueur” along with other things not normally revered, like playing too loud, posturing and “not giving a shit”. (more…)