Heavy Trash
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Heavy Trash

Blues Explosion's Jon Spencer discovers the 1950's.

For style-worshipping fans who think the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion picked up where Howlin' Wolf left off, the sound of rockabilly, pre-Army Elvis and ancient valve amps is probably no big deal. But for the rest of us Spencer's Heavy Trash starts the party with a bang. Joining forces with Speedball Baby twang guitar hero Matt Verta-Ray, Spencer loses his '90's pose for a fresh blast of rock'n'roll past; inspired All Shook Up vocal howls, bleary-eyed drinking sentiments, truck driving swongs and warbling steel guitars so spooky and spectral you half expect Johnny Cash to ride up on a horse and shoot you between the eyes. Spencer enters this Jerry Lee Lewis-meets-Link Wray world with gusto, greasing the wheels (and his hair) on open road thumpers like The Hump and female-adoring tribute, Gatorade.

Ken Micallef