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Now I Got Worry (Import) (CD)

By: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Artist)

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Jon Spencer Artist Snapshot:

When raunchy garage-rockers Pussy Galore called it quits in 1990, vocalist/guitarist Jon Spencer founded the Blues Explosion, along with guitarist Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins. Backing up Spencer's Elvis-on-acid yelp with a heavy dose of punk, funk, and blues, the band first garnered attention with its 1993 outing, EXTRA WIDTH. It cemented its reputation as a potent and playful indie-rock force on the subsequent albums ORANGE and NOW I GOT WORRY. The bass-less blues stomp of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion would go on to influence other early 21st-century low-end-lacking acts such as the White Stripes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Now I Got Worry (Import) (CD) Album By Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (A...
1   Stunk  
2   Identify  
3   Wail  
4   Fuck Shit Up  
5   2 Kindas Love  
6   Love All Of Me  
7   Chickend Dog  
8   Booketship  
9   Dynamite Lover  
10   Hot Shot  
11   Can't Stop  
12   Firefly Child  
13   Eyeballin  
14   B.L. Got Soul  
15   Get Over Here  
16   Sticky  
 

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Review

Village Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #39 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #11 on Melody Maker's list of 1996's "Albums Of The Year."
Rolling Stone (10/3/96, p.72) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...NOW I GOT WORRY finds the Blues Explosion...stripping down to basics. Spencer and the band eschew the hip-hop influences that came to a head on 1994's ORANGE, opting instead for a more gutbucket approach..."
Spin (11/96, pp.121-122) - 7 (out of 10) - "...retreats from the promising, wiggy pomo melange of 1994's ORANGE in favor of garage raunch....there's no confusing the deft simplicity of Spencer's current riff-conjuring with the nascent primitivism of his band's debut CRYPT STYLE..."
Musician (1/97, p.85) - "...continues to smash funk backbeats, blues cliches, and sleazy slide guitar work against a wall of (literally) screaming punk mania....Ludicrous and excessive, the style works--mainly because it just plain rocks....Rackety, impolite, compulsively rhythmic, and funny as hell..."
Vibe (3/97, p.140) - "...New York City punk rockers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion mine the Mississippi Delta for the secrets of its soil..."
Q (11/96, p.136) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...This album...is the trio's most unapologetic yet, with screeching dementia through broken-down amps, speed railroad blues and barely decipherable lyrics..."
Melody Maker (9/28/96, p.48) - Recommended - "...Everything's under control, everything's allowed room to breathe. Not a note, not a beat is wasted. There are continual explosions of noise; drums roll, and guitars scrape in glorious monotony....a replica, sure. But it's so damn EXCITING"
Alternative Press (12/96, p.80) - 5 (out of 5) - "...JSBX have made an album that not only honors the raw, spontaneous emotionalism of the music that inspires them...but also done so without aping them mindlessly or attempting revision..."

Review

Rolling Stone (10/3/96, p.72) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...NOW I GOT WORRY finds the Blues Explosion...stripping down to basics. Spencer and the band eschew the hip-hop influences that came to a head on 1994's ORANGE, opting instead for a more gutbucket approach..."
Spin (11/96, pp.121-122) - 7 (out of 10) - "...retreats from the promising, wiggy pomo melange of 1994's ORANGE in favor of garage raunch....there's no confusing the deft simplicity of Spencer's current riff-conjuring with the nascent primitivism of his band's debut CRYPT STYLE..."
Q (11/96, p.136) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...This album...is the trio's most unapologetic yet, with screeching dementia through broken-down amps, speed railroad blues and barely decipherable lyrics..."
Alternative Press (12/96, p.80) - 5 (out of 5) - "...JSBX have made an album that not only honors the raw, spontaneous emotionalism of the music that inspires them...but also done so without aping them mindlessly or attempting revision..."
Vibe (3/97, p.140) - "...New York City punk rockers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion mine the Mississippi Delta for the secrets of its soil..."
Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #11 on Melody Maker's list of 1996's "Albums Of The Year."
Melody Maker (9/28/96, p.48) - Recommended - "...Everything's under control, everything's allowed room to breathe. Not a note, not a beat is wasted. There are continual explosions of noise; drums roll, and guitars scrape in glorious monotony....a replica, sure. But it's so damn EXCITING!"
Musician (1/97, p.85) - "...continues to smash funk backbeats, blues cliches, and sleazy slide guitar work against a wall of (literally) screaming punk mania....Ludicrous and excessive, the style works--mainly because it just plain rocks....Rackety, impolite, compulsively rhythmic, and funny as hell..."
Village Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #39 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Product note

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Jon Spencer, Judah Bauer (vocals, guitar); Russell Simins (drums).
Additional personnel: Rufus Thomas (vocals); Justin Berry (saxophone); Mark Ramos-Nishita (piano, Clavinet, organ); Thermos Malling.
Engineers include: Mario Caldato, Jr., Doug Easley, Jim Waters.
Recorded at Easley Studio, Memphis, Tennessee; G-Son, Los Angeles, California; and Waterworks West, Tucson, Arizona.
NOW I GOT WORRY finds punk bluesman Jon Spencer and his band now genuinely interested in the musicality of the blues, rather than the mere surface attitude of the genre. The guitar work has become technically advanced, with respectable solos popping up throughout this album. The production firmly places the band down in the Mississippi Delta, with a scratchy, rusty sound--you can almost smell the mildew growing on the amps.
It appears the Blues Explosion has also become interested in the textural ramifications of the blues. The band experiments with a dub-like sense of space on some songs, adding layers of raw percussion and vintage keyboards to the signature sweaty guitars, making for a more complex and challenging sound. But the Blues Explosion, while now embracing a more academic approach, has not forgotten how to boogie. This band is still a raucous force, with another album of rump-shaking songs under its belt.

Title Note

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Jon Spencer, Judah Bauer (vocals, guitar); Russell Simins (drums).

Additional personnel: Rufus Thomas (vocals); Justin Berry (saxophone); Mark Ramos-Nishita (piano, Clavinet, organ); Thermos Malling.

Engineers include: Mario Caldato, Jr., Doug Easley, Jim Waters.

Recorded at Easley Studio, Memphis, Tennessee; G-Son, Los Angeles, California; and Waterworks West, Tucson, Arizona.

NOW I GOT WORRY finds punk bluesman Jon Spencer and his band now genuinely interested in the musicality of the blues, rather than the mere surface attitude of the genre. The guitar work has become technically advanced, with respectable solos popping up throughout this album. The production firmly places the band down in the Mississippi Delta, with a scratchy, rusty sound--you can almost smell the mildew growing on the amps.

It appears the Blues Explosion has also become interested in the textural ramifications of the blues. The band experiments with a dub-like sense of space on some songs, adding layers of raw percussion and vintage keyboards to the signature sweaty guitars, making for a more complex and challenging sound. But the Blues Explosion, while now embracing a more academic approach, has not forgotten how to boogie. This band is still a raucous force, with another album of rump-shaking songs under its belt.

Album Description

NOW I GOT WORRY finds punk bluesman Jon Spencer and his band now genuinely interested in the musicality of the blues, rather than the mere surface attitude of the genre. The guitar work has become technically advanced, with respectable solos popping up throughout this album. The production firmly places the band down in the Mississippi Delta, with a scratchy, rusty sound--you can almost smell the mildew growing on the amps.
It appears the Blues Explosion has also become interested in the textural ramifications of the blues. The band experiments with a dub-like sense of space on some songs, adding layers of raw percussion and vintage keyboards to the signature sweaty guitars, making for a more complex and challenging sound. But the Blues Explosion, while now embracing a more academic approach, has not forgotten how to boogie. This band is still a raucous force, with another album of rump-shaking songs under its belt.

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