Meat & Bone

Meat And Bone is The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s first album of new material in eight years and follows on from 2004’s Damage. This is straight-up, A-Grade Blues Explosion, produced and mixed by Mr. Spencer himself. Meat And Bone is 12 prime cuts of raw rock ‘n’ roll, recorded in Michigan on a vintage Flickinger mixing console custom built for Sly Stone and mixed in the jungles of New York City.

The band recently regrouped in the wake of the 2010’s meticulous and loving reissues of the band’s early Matador albums. It was amid this period of looking back, that Spencer, Simins and Bauer began the process of moving forward.

Says 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, 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 JSBX first tore up the indie-rock landscape with fever and a visceral, untouchable vision of rock’n‘roll.