The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Meat + Bone – review

(Bronze Rat)Before the White Stripes, before the Black Keys, there was the Blues Explosion – a roiling New York three-piece who played the music of wizened Delta men with the zeal of urban punks, repackaging it for hipsters. You might argue that the two latter-day outfits are in Jon Spencer's debt. But then, the blues is the most ripped-off genre extant, so all bets are off. After an absence of eight years, Spencer, Russell Simins and Judah Bauer aren't exactly reinvigorated; this trio have ne...

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