| 18 September 2012 | Boombox / Mom + Pop | SHOV18 / MP 068-1 |
| A1. Black Mold A2. Bag Of Bones A3. Boot Cut A4. Get Your Pants Off A5. Ice Cream Killer A6. Strange Baby B1. Bottle Baby |
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| US vinyl release of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album recorded in October 2011 at Key Club Recording, Benton Harbor, Michigan (using a Flickinger console originally custom built for Sly Stone).
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. Press Release:
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, NYC A1. Bag of Bones A2. Black Mold A3. Boot Cut A4. Get Your Pants Off A5. Ice Cream Killer A6. Strange Baby B1. Bottle Baby B2. Danger B3. Black Thoughts B4. Unclear B5. Bear Trap B6. Zimgar |
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I lost my way in world with the crazy drum, messed-up beat on the guitar all together falling down the stairs first I got it in the ear. Then I got it in my back now I got it in the knees but it still ain’t clear there were times that I could not hit that note so I got the shot down on the floor I had to run so very fast, I had to run so very much, I had to run so very hard but it still ain’t clear. You were mine. A short while A long time ago baby but now you put me through so many changes where did it all go? What did you happen to do to that thing that we know? I said baby please don’t go I’m gonna blacken your eye, blacken your heart rearrange your soul, I’m gonna tear it apart wrapped up stuck, and condemned to this fate but it still ain’t clear |
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| ARTWORK: Photo: Michael Lavine Lettering: Elizabeth Carey Smith BARCODE: 8 5827500681 0 RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING |
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