Mark Lemhouse - Big Lonesome Radio (2009)

Tracklist

01. You Can't Get That Stuff No More
02. What's the Matter with Papa's Little Angel Child
03. Baby Sister Blues
04. Jealous Moon
05. Tappin' That Thing
06. Electra 225
07. Edwin's Lament
08. No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby
09. Mercy Mia
10. Pony Blues
11. One Hand Loose
12. Driftin'



Mark Lemhouse’s debut release delivers string-strangling, gut-rocking blues ecstasy. Lemhouse reaches into a wicked toolbox — containing resonator chainsaw, electric tube-amp machete, and bottleneck auger — to uproot blues tradition with a vandal’s glee.

Recorded to analog tape with vintage mics at Easley/McCain Studios in Memphis, Big Lonesome Radio has a gritty feel that’s more akin to a Howlin’ Wolf or Jimmy Reed than a young man playing the blues in the 21st century has a right to sound.

Melding together influences from Delta blues, Piedmont rag-style forms, and North Mississippi trance blues, Lemhouse’s notes come across like crackling radio transmissions from a time gone by.

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