To me, Fat Possum was just a giant fuck you to slap bass and glossy, reverbed production. It was exciting, in the same way Sun/Chess/Trumpet/Jewel records from the 50s and 60s were exciting.Dirty, ominous, and dangerous.
I see where Bluey is coming from. I just think that from the vantage point of someone who grew up in a household where virtually all you heard was blues, Fat Possum was a giant breath of fresh air.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
during the show RL kept saying the joke, "Waitress, get me another beer, this one has a hole in it!" to much applause....
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
BLUES HAMMER
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― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
so hearing Fat Possum (and some other underground blues labels) was definitely an eye-opener. yeah, most of my friends from high school who were big into the blues are probably still into Stevie Ray Vaughn and Duke Robillaird and Keb Mo, and I totally understand the distaste for that style. And I agree with it!
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― bluey, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― there are twelve people in the world the rest are haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Those 70s Son Seals and Fenton Robinson LPs are so raw! Live and Burning is probably my favorite live album of all time.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Luther Allison went through this weird "soul" period in the mid-70s that was pretty weak, which springs immediately to mind. He found the plot again a little bit in the mid-'90s, it's a shame he passed away too early. I saw a show of his a few months before and it was definitely RAW
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Just saw the You See Me Laughing documentary and am inspired to drop a C note on some Fat Possum stuff. I already have a lot - almost every Junior Kimbrough album, RL's Too Bad Jim and Ass Pocket of Whiskey, the Elmo and Hezikiah album, Robert Belfour, etc. I don't own any T Model Ford, Cedell Davis, Asie Peyton, etc. I was gonna start a S&D thread but I know starting new threads when you can just revive an old one is frowned upon, so...help me out! What's essential?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 28 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
S: To Model Ford's "I'm Insane"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 January 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
also Pee Wee Get My Gun and She Ain't None of Your'N
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 January 2008 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Junior K sill fucking epic
― admrl, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
well, most things don't work out! -- I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla)
― admrl, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember having some conversation where a dude was like, "Fat Possum is some intentionally gritty, tryin to force-fit the rawness of whatever those white dudes runnin shit think the blues is/should be" (or something) and I'm all "no way, most of those guys are just some old poor folks w/ cheap guitars and amps cuz that's what they can afford, and for a long time Fat Possum barely had enough money to record that shit and usually had to wait to put it out cuz they couldn't actually finance it--of course it sounds raw and gritty", and he was all "my bad". I forget where, on the internet someplace most likely...
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think we got into the RL Burnside albums with house beats and whatever.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/documenting-the-blues-in-the-mississippi-delta/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Saw a FP t-shirt in the wild today“Born to Party /Forced to Work”I like to switch the nouns around
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:11 (seven months ago) link