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When raunchy garage rockers Pussy Galore called it quits in 1990, 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 & 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......

"NOW I GOT WORRY"

Produced by Jim Waters and Jon Spencer

1996     LP       MUTE RECORDS     STUMM 132

MADE IN ENGLAND   ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 5 016025 311323

Label Code: none

LABEL: MUTE - DARK BROWN LABEL w/RED ARTWORK - GOLD TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) Stumm132

Catalog on labels: none

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): STU-MM 132-A MASTERDISK  PRM DMM

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): STU-MM-132-B MASTERDISK  PRM DMM

On labels: ℗ 1996 Mute Records Ltd 

© 1996 Mute Records Ltd

Made in UK   33 rpm

On Inner Sleeve: Credits

.........Printed in the UK   Stumm 132

On Back Cover: P 1996 Mute Records Limited.......Distributed by RIM/DISC. Made in Great Britain

tracklisting

Side A: SKUNK - IDENTITY - WAIL - FUCK SHIT UP - 2KINDSA LOVE

LOVE ALL OF ME - CHICKEN DOG - ROCKETSHIP

Side B: DYNAMITE LOVER - HOT SHOT - CAN'T STOP - FIREFLY CHILD - EYEBALLIN

R.L. GOT SOUL - GET OVER HERE - STICKY

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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion were one of the most viscerally exciting indie rock acts of the 1990s, but making their blast of frantic energy work in the studio was sometimes a challenge if you were going for anything more than sheer gutbucket stomp. On Orange and Acme, JSBX used strings, hip-hop beats, and various production niceties to add texture to the two-guitar-and-drums onslaught, but with Now I Got Worry, they moved forward into the past with the fiercest and most elemental set they'd released since Crypt Style. Now I Got Worry kicks off with Spencer screaming his head off while Russell Simins lays down a funky, muscular backbeat, and that sets the tone for what follows; the album plays at full-blast from beginning to end, even when the tempo shifts and the band eases back a bit in the name of dynamics. The blast-furnace tone is consistent, but the approach jumps from cut to cut, as JSBX tackle proto-hardcore on "Identify," shift into country-blues mode on "Rocketship," party with Rufus Thomas on "Chicken Dog," lay into a punishingly funky groove on "R.L. Got Soul," and wander through a pool of drug-addled dub on "Fuck Shit Up." But, ultimately, extremity is the point on Now I Got Worry, and even when it seems relatively gentle, it's never subtle; the production (mostly by Jim Waters) isn't afraid to push the music into the red zone, and Spencer's fearsome vocal wail, the attack of Spencer and Judah Bauer's guitars, and Simins' relentless drumming connect with the force of a fist into the solar plexus. Now I Got Worry may not be JSBX's best album, but it does capture their taut, blazing, live sound and their eccentric studio approach with a better balance than anything else in their catalog; if you want to get slapped upside the head while you boogie all night long, this is the album for you...(AllMusic)