That time R.L. Burnside told me how he came to record A Ass Pocket of Whiskey with Jon Spencer

By Steve Newton

I did my second interview with Mississippi hill country bluesman R.L. Burnside in December of 2000, four years after the release of A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, the album he recorded with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

That raucous Matador Records disc introduced Burnside to a college-rock fan base and allowed him to straddle the blues and rock markets, so at one point in the conversation I asked him if he’d like to work with Jon Spencer again.

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