R L BURNSIDE (with JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION)
A ASS POCKET OF WHISKEY
Label: Fat Possum
Released ; 18 June 1996
Format: Flac
RL Burnside recorded his share of solo acoustic 12-bar, but he'll be remembered for driving electric blues. In the last 10 years of his life he enjoyed a modest amount of fame in the indie world due largely to this record, a 1996 collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion originally released on Matador. Burnside had already toured with the Blues Explosion by this point. When Spencer got the idea to cut a record, the band dispatched to an isolated spot in rural Mississippi with nothing but their equipment and what one imagines was a vast amount of booze. It's hard to imagine a more masculine scene: A half-dozen guys in a hunting cabin, drinking whiskey, cursing a blue streak, talking about women, and playing the kind of raunchy blues where "I'd rather see you dead than with another man" is as close as one gets to "I love you."
Tracklist:
01. Goin' Down South
02. Boogie Chillen
03. Poor Boy
04. 2 Brothers
05. Snake Drive
06. Shake 'em On Down
07. The Criminal Inside Me
08. Walkin' Blues
09. Tojo Told Hitler
10. Have You Ever Been Lonely?
R.L.Burnside: vocals and guitar
Kenny Brown: guitar
Judah Bauer: guitar, harmonica
Russell Simins: drums
Jon Spenser: guitar, vocals
