My pal Stormy Davis over in the contemporary blues thread was talking about a gang of newer blues acts from Mississippi that the hipsters may have overlooked because they don't record for Fat
Possum...which reminded me:
Has Fat Possum given up on releasing blues records?
Not that I'm losing sleep over it, and last I checked their website still big-upped their blues catalogue. But nearly every promo F.P. disc that has shown up on my desk at work for the past year is all alt-rock. And it's not the rootsy, garagey-type acts either, like most of the white artists on the label in the past (Bob Log III, the Neckbones). It's now bands like We Are Wolves, whose CD I actually like, but this is a 180-degree turnaround from the pistol-packing bluesmen that used to dominate the stable.
In retrospect, I think it was right around the time that R.L. Burnside died that they threw in the towel on the blues thing. After Nathaniel Mayer and Little Freddie King, that was IT, bro! I am aware that several of their original blues acts have died, but now it looks like they're trying to be the 4AD of the Delta. Has Matthew Johnson sworn off jook-joint music for the time being?
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 20 November 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)