| US CD issue of Meat and Bone by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album.
nb. images also show exported edition rented in Japan and US promo sticker.
Meat and Bone was released in the UK by Bronze Rat / Shove on CD and vinyl, in the US by Mom and Pop on CD and vinyl and in Japan by Sony on CD with bonus tracks Gadzooks! and Tell Me That You Love Me (originally issued as In The Red Records Jukebox Series single #6).
A CD / Meat and Bone pre-order package was available from TheJonSpencerBluesExplosion.com which included the album on CD and vinyl along with The Blues Exploder, Apron and Poster by Malleus.
Black Mold and Bag of Bones were issued as a 7″ single, US Promo CD and UK Promo CD.
Promo Sticker Text:
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Meat and Bone
Boombox / Mom + Pop
Impacting Alternative Specialty Sept. 18th
THE SYNDICATE
ROB WILCOX-rob@thesyn.com-888.666.2061 x 250
On stage and in the studio, Jon Spencer has 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: Jon Spencer was there first. He is the original. It was his sanctified outbursts and blues-bending riffs that began the new-fangled roots rock revolution and spawned countless imitators. With their first album in 8 years, The Blues return with Meat and Bone.
Focus Track: “Bag of Bones” | FCC Warning: #7 
RIYL: The Black Keys, Rocket From The Crypt, The MC5, Sebadoh
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.”
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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, NYC01. 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 |
