There comes a time when nothing else but a brain-hammering session with Pussy Galore‘s 1989 album Dial M For Motherfucker will do. And not just to clear the house of your so-called friends who’ve been sloshing cheap wine on your expensive new carpet all night. (Although it might work for that, too.) Jon Spencer, the man who shocked and awed the world with the noisiest band in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, went on to form three more exhilarating combos: Boss Hog (with his wife Cristina Martinez), Heavy Trash (his most recent band) and, of course, the stunning Blues Explosion, whose recent career-spanning compendium, Dirty Shirt Rock ‘N’ Roll (Majordomo), tells you plenty about the DNA of the man in charge. (The label is reissuing expanded versions of out-of-print Blues Explosion albums Now I Got Worry and Controversial Negro this week.) Spencer is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Spencer: It’s getting to be rhubarb season. I like rhubarb a lot. It actually grows very easily and doesn’t take much care. It grows wild where I grew up. It’s kind of an early-summer crop. My favorite thing is a strawberry rhubarb pie. It’s something that my mother would bake. But I’ll take it any way, in a compote with anything, really. You just eat the stalks. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I’ve heard that the leaves are not good for you.
Video after the jump.
